World Recipes

Chicken braised with saffron, ginger, preserved lemons, and Moroccan olives in a conical tagine pot.

Flaky warqa pastry filled with spiced shredded chicken, almond cream, eggs, and dusted with cinnamon and powdered sugar.

Braised chicken with olives and preserved lemons — Morocco's signature.

Steamed couscous served with a rich lamb and vegetable broth, merguez sausage, and seven seasonal vegetables.

Slow-braised lamb with apricots, almonds, and warm spices in a conical clay pot.

Slow-braised lamb shoulder with prunes, toasted almonds, cinnamon, and honey in a sweet-savory Moroccan tagine.

Eggs poached in spiced tomato-pepper sauce — North African breakfast icon.

Eggs poached in a spiced tomato-pepper sauce with cumin and paprika, scooped up with crusty bread.

White fish marinated in chermoula (cilantro, cumin, paprika, lemon) and baked or grilled with roasted vegetables.

Steamed couscous with lamb, chicken, merguez, and seven vegetables.

Tomato-lentil soup with lamb — Morocco's Ramadan breaking-fast soup.

Rich Moroccan soup with lentils, chickpeas, tomatoes, lamb, and warming spices, traditionally served to break the Ramadan fast.

Spiced beef meatballs simmered in a cumin-paprika tomato sauce with eggs cracked on top, served with bread.

Crispy fried pastry encasing a whole runny egg, tuna, capers, and parsley, eaten by hand.

Crispy warqa or phyllo pastry triangles filled with spiced ground meat, almonds, or goat cheese and honey.

Tunisian stewed peppers and tomatoes with garlic, caraway, and harissa, often served with merguez or eggs.

Ramadan soup with lentils and chickpeas — vegan version without lamb.

Spicy North African lamb sausage seasoned with harissa, cumin, and fennel, grilled until charred.

Cooked carrots dressed with cumin, paprika, garlic, lemon juice, and cilantro, served as a mezze dish.

Shredded chicken and lentils served over torn msemen flatbread, drenched in a fenugreek-onion sauce.

Smoky eggplant and tomato salad — Moroccan dip.

Cooked eggplant and tomato salad seasoned with garlic, cumin, paprika, and cilantro, served warm or cold with bread.