Okra is served often in tagines of lamb, where it is a good accompaniment to tomatoes, quinces, small sweet apples, pears, zucchini, and a vegetable very similar to yellow squash called slaoui. One rarely finds okra served alone, though I have heard of a dish prepared in Fez made of pureed okra cooked with onions, green coriander, and parsley.
Working time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours
Serves:...
Friday, October 3, 2014
This Tetuán dish is called “roof tile” style because the okra is arranged like the green roof tiles of many Moroccan buildings. It steams above a sauce so thick a spoon can stand in it, a prominent feature of Tetuanese cooking.
Working time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours
Serves: 4 to 6
Ingredients:
3½ pounds shoulder of lamb, cut into 1½-inch chunks
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Salt and freshly...
The recipe for this delicious tagine was collected by a Peace Corps girl, who liked it so much she made up copies and handed them around to all her friends.
Working time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours
Serves: 4 to 5
Ingredients:
3 pounds lamb shoulder, cut into
1½-inch chunks
3 tablespoons salad oil or butter
1 scant cup grated onion
Pinch of pulverized saffron
½ teaspoon...
Working time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 2¼ hours
Serves: 4 to 6
Ingredients:
3 pounds lamb shoulder, cut into 1½-inch chunks, with bones
Pinch of pulverized saffron
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Salt to taste
2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
2 to 3 tablespoons salad oil
2/3 cup grated onion
12 to 14...
Working time: 35 minutes
Cooking time: 2½ hours
Serves: 5 to 6
Ingredients:
3 pounds shoulder of lamb, cut into 1½-inch chunks
2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
Pinch of pulverized saffron
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon sweet paprika
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/4 cup salad oil or less
2½ pounds fresh, ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded,...
Ingredients:
For the lamb and sauce:
3 pounds rib or shoulder of lamb, cut into 1½-inch chunks
½ cup chopped parsley
5 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1¼ cups grated onion
¼ cup salad oil, or less
1 rounded teaspoon paprika
¼ teaspoon ground cumin
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Pinch of pulverized saffron
Salt to taste
2 to 3 tablespoons lemon juice
For the eggplant garnish:
4...
Working time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours 40 minutes or more
Serves: 4 to 6
Ingredients:
2½ to 3 pounds beef stew meat, such as shoulder, chuck, or short ribs of beef (with some bone), cut into 1¼-inch chunks
¼ teaspoon turmeric
Salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
¼ cup salad oil
½ teaspoons sharp paprika
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1 pinch ground...
Beef tagines can be very good indeed. After hours of slow simmering the meat comes out buttery and soft, and the sauce is full of spicy flavor. The spicing in this dish follows the Beef tagines can be very good indeed. After hours of slow simmering the meat comes out buttery and soft, and the sauce is full of spicy flavor. The spicing in this dish follows the Marrakesh style, while the browning of...
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Mhancha, a traditional Moroccan pastry filled with almonds and perfumed with orange-blossom water, is the perfect way to finish off your Moroccan banquet.
Serves: 6-8
Prep. time: 25 min
Cooking time:25 min
Ingredients:
16 sheets filo pastry
1 egg yolk, lightly whisked with 1 tbsp cold water
80 g unsalted...
Monday, July 21, 2014
These little cookies must get their name from the “runner” chickens also called fekkas, for they are tough little things with a good taste. They are very popular for tea dunking, doubtless because they can stand the heat.
Working time: 40 minutes
Rising time: 1½ to 2 hours
Baking time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
1 package active dry yeast
3 to 3¼ cups pastry flour
¼ teaspoon salt
Confectioners’ sugar
½...
Ghoriba cookies are based on semolina flour (hard wheat), which has its own marvelous taste and texture. These are lovely light cookies, sugar-dipped, the size of half-dollars.
Working time: 20 minutes
Baking time: 15 to 18 minutes
Makes: 3½ dozen cookies
Ingredients:
Sweet butter
¼ cup salad oil
2...
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Widely sold as streed food with Maroccan bread, these spicy lamb kebas are also often served as a little dish. The meat is cut intoo small cubes and marinated before being threaded onto bamboo or metal skewers and grilled.
Serves: 4
Prep. Time: 30 min
Cooking Time: 10 min
Ingredients:
750 gram boneless...
Thursday, May 29, 2014
These cakes are sometimes called "gazelle horns" in English, but why that is remains a mystrey. In Arabic. kaab el ghozal mean "gazelle ankles". This recipee make 60 to 70 horns.
Makes: 60-70
Prep. Time: 20 min
Cooking Time: 10 min
Ingredients:
Almond paste
8 cups (1 kg) blanched and peeled almonds
2...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Couscous is actually a type of pasta, which is cut into tiny little grains. It looks like coarse sand, and cooks very quickly. It goes well with any sort of meat, fish, poultry, or vegetable. It is the staple food of Morocco and much of North Africa, where it is usually steamed in a special steamer which goes...
Monday, May 26, 2014
A simple dish which is delicious with bread and a salad.
Serves: 4
Prep. Time: 10 min
Cooking Time: 30-40 min
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons oil
75g (3oz) smen, ghee or butter, melted
3 onions, cut crossways into thin rounds
12 eggs
1½ teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
Direction:
Heat the oil and half the butter in a large frying pan, add the onions and fry gently for 20–30 minutes or until...
This first one incorporates both the olive and the orange. It is simple, refreshing and excellent as a starter or an accompaniment to meat and poultry grills.
Serves: 4-6
Prep. Time: 10 min
Cooking Time: none
Ingredients:
4 large oranges, peeled, white membrane removed
20–30 black olives, washed and stoned
Juice 1 small lemon
1 teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon cumin
½...
This very simple, crisp Moroccan salad is easy to prepare.
Serves: 6
Prep. Time: 10
Cooking Time: none
Ingredients:
1 small cauliflower
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
3 tablespoons oil
Juice
1 large lemon
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon paprika
1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
Direction:
Break the cauliflower into...
Serves: 4-6
Prep. Time: 10 min
Cooking Time: 15 min
Ingredients:
675g pumpkin, peeled and cut into 5cm (2in) pieces
2 cloves garlic, crushed
Juice 1 lemon
1 teaspoon ground caraway
1 teaspoon coriander
1½ teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh mint or 1 teaspoon dried mint (garnish)
Directions:
Half...
This is a rich and filling soup, with the meat and vegetables finely chopped. Popular throughout Morocco, but especially in the region of the ancient imperial town of Meknes which, during the reign of Sultan Moulay-Ismail, experienced a period of great prosperity.
Serves: 4-6
Prep. Time: 5 min
Cooking Time: 70 min
Ingredients:
25g butter
175g lamb or beef, cut into 1cm cubes
175g...
Serves: 8
Prep. time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours or longer
Ingredients:
½ cup dried chick-peas
1 pound lamb, trimmed and cut into ½ -inch cubes
1 teaspoon turmeric
Pinch of pulverized saffron
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger (optional)
1 tablespoon smen (cooked and salted...
Serves: 6 to 8
Prep. time: 20 min
Cooking time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped parsley
1 tablespoon finely chopped celery leaves
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 tablespoon smen (cooked and salted butter) or 2 tablespoons fresh butter
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ pound shoulder of lamb, in ½-inch cubes wings, backs and giblets of 1 chicken
½ cup...
It may seem odd to stuff bread with fat and spices, but the idea is extremely ingenious: the fat runs out through holes pricked in the dough, becomes the medium in which the bread is fried, and leaves behind its flavor and an array of spices and herbs that make it taste strikingly like pizza crust.
Serves: 4
Working time: 40 min
Rising time: 45 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Ingredients:
1 package active...
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Pulling away pieces of succulent roast lamb and dipping them into cumin and salt is one
of Morocco’s great culinary treats. In the home kitchen, it is very difficult to spit-roast
a whole lamb, as is done for large Moroccan celebrations. A delicious version can be
prepared by steaming a shoulder or leg of...
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Brochettes de Kefta is a Maroccan recipe for a kebab that is made out of ground meat.
Serves: 6
Prep. Time: 15 min
Cooking Time: 10-15 min
Ingredients:
1½ lb/680 g ground beef or lamb or a mix
of the two
1 medium red onion, finely grated
¼ cup/10 g loosely packed finely chopped
fresh flat-leaf parsley
¼ cup/10...
Moroccan bread is a main element which is served with most dishes. It is essential and delicious. This recipe is also called: koubz, khubz or home bread.
Makes 16
Prep. Time: 60 min
Cooking Time: 12 min
Ingredients:
2½ cups wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon easter sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1x 7g sachet yeast
1¼...
A hearty soup packed with Moroccan flavours it will definitely be a staple this winter.
Serves: 4
Prep. Time: none
Cooking Time: 45-50 min
Ingredients:
1 chicken
4 cups of chicken stock, more if desired
4 hard cooked egg yolks
3 tbsps. fresh cream
1 tbsps. slivered almonds
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
In a large soup pot, boil the chicken broth.
Mix...
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