To prepare them, make quarter cuts into fresh lemons and pack them with kosher salt. Pack the lemons tightly in a jar and fill it with enough fresh-squeezed lemon juice to cover the fruit completely.
Then store in a dark cupboard for a month, turning the jar upside down from time to time to distribute the salt evenly. An Introduction to Moroccan Cuisine. By Sara Gauchat Updated July 19, Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team.
If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission. Save FB Tweet More. Meat and potatoes get a delicious upgrade with dried apricots, cumin, ginger, and cinnamon. The following are the top 25 popular dishes in Morocco. Tagine is made from spiced vegetables that are cooked with a little and often light broth, accompanied by meat, chicken or fish.
Tagines have a clay cover with the purpose of distributing the heat from the top to the whole pot. This ensures a healthy and slow cooking process that lasts for a long time sometimes, until all the ingredients are absorbed through it with the flavor-loaded steam.
It becomes soft and the bone separates automatically from the meat, making it a real pleasure to eat it, especially if some lemon is placed on it to add a special taste. The secret of the tastiness of tagine lies in the spices used when cooking, which are: cornflowers, ginger, free saffron, ghee, onions, and garlic.
These are the basic ingredients that give the tagine its taste. The tagine is served with bread that is considered necessary. Tagine is not eaten without bread. Cooking food in the tagine is very healthy because it is cooked with steam and steamed food is the best healthy food ever.
Couscous is made from wheat or corn flour in the form of small grains, and it is taken with spoons or by hand. It is cooked with steam and added to meat, vegetables, green pulverized beans, milk, butter, and fine sugar, according to tastes and occasions. Couscous is present in all occasions in Morocco, be them marriages, funerals, and sacred feasts. In , the countries of the Maghreb Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria , and Tunisia made a joint demand to the UNESCO asking it to consider this popular dish as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
It is a pot made of puffed clay, and a meal of lamb or beef, with which the spices are mixed and cooked in the same pot and buried under hot ash. Tangia is always associated with the city of Marrakech, Morocco. It is the most famous dish that the citizens of the city of Marrakech serve their guests as a distinctive dish with its meat and spices.
Tanjia has a unique taste and a wonderful flavor. There are sometimes when those traditional bakeries get crowded, especially during religious feasts. Especially in Ramadan and spring holidays, where men enjoy it in gardens and orchards. Women rarely prepare Tanjia! Fried Chicken is one of the basic dishes that Moroccans have relied on since ancient times.
Fried chicken is one of the well-known and widely enjoyed Moroccan dishes. It is the main dish that is served on occasions, such as weddings, birth parties, circumcision, and various other parties. It is served with olives, sour and sometimes hot pepper. Its broth tastes of garlic and vinegar, and it is rich in fats, protein, and vitamins. It is advised to eat it once or twice a month, as its composition -mainly of a high number of calories and a large amount of fats- makes the body invest a lot of energy in its digestion process.
In Moroccan society, people tend to have fatty, high-calorie dishes, as they constitute for them full meals to compensate for the energy they lose after the long and tiring workdays or cold winter days. Trotters are a well-known dish, and whoever wants to strengthen his bones, as they say, should eat trotters. As soon as you mention it, the Moroccan Kingdom is the first thing to strike your mind, and specifically the city of Fez.
This ancient and imperial city; known for its Bazaars and narrow streets; is the home for many traditional Moroccan dishes. Pastela is one of the most luxurious Moroccan dishes. It is highly demanding in preparation, which made it a strong competitor to some other well-known Moroccan dishes, such as Couscous and Tagine; in terms of taste as well as the ingredients used in it. A distinctive Moroccan popular dish, prepared from fried and grilled eggplant, in addition to the two types of pepper, hot and sweet, according to mood.
It is often served as a salad, especially in winter, when Moroccans tend to have hot salads, rather than cold ones. It has a strong presence in some other Maghreb countries, such as Algeria and Tunisia, just like other many well-known Moroccan dishes -couscous-with the difference in the preparation process, methods and the ingredients used. In any case, the eggplant remains an essential ingredient in preparing the dish in all these countries.
The most famous soup that Moroccans have throughout the year and during the sacred month of Ramadan to break the fast every day. Harira is among the most complete dishes in the Moroccan diet. The recipe uses dried, split fava beans broad beans , which are yellow; dried whole fava beans still have their skins on and are browny-green.
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