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Traditional Moroccan chicken with olives and preserved lemons: Djaj M'qualli...
This dish as Moroccan as it can get! It’s a dish served in ceremonies and during special events. Every single stage in making this dish is important. From a properly handled chicken to the final...
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Moroccan street food: My dad's amazing battered Maa'kouda
Today's post is about one of the most amazing street food bites in Morocco: the battered Maa'kouda.However, the non-battered seems to be the most published and written about especially in English..I...
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Moroccan street food: the beloved galetta dial Mahlaba
These amazing caky shortbreads called galette or galettas are part of our Moroccan street food repertoire.Along with the coconut macaroons I posted previously, they are anyone's favourite especially...
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German cream cake with rhubarb and strawberries
I definitely miss my days in Germany! my daily routine, meeting my friends for kaffee und kuchen (coffee and cake) breaks with my husband after his work, the beautiful landscape, the juicy fruits, the...
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Moroccan whole wheat bread: Khobz zra'a for my 500th post
Well, the 500th post in this blog has to be a Moroccan recipe and a vital one! It's about the daily bread.Moroccan cooking has always been an oral tradition transmitted from generation to generation...
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Tagine Berraniya and what a story behind it!
This and many similar dishes falling under Berraniyya or bouraniya are reputed to be named after Bourane, the daughter of Hasan Ibn Sahl and the wife of great Calife Al Mamoun (813-833 AD)..According...
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Moroccan Chicken with tomato jam: Djaj be maticha ma'assla
If I literally translate the name of this dish to English, it should rather say Chicken with caramelized tomatoes.Chicken with tomato jam is one of the easiest dishes in Morocco but it's not very...
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Buttered Mkhamer, a Moroccan flatbread you want to try
Today's recipe is a pure hybrid between our nation-favourite pan-fried bread called Batbout (or Mkhamer (depending whom you're talking to) and mlaoui, which can be categorized somewhere between a...
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Moroccan aubergine salad: Zaalouk
If you are not fan of aubergines, this is a recipe that will make you eat them.Aubergines are heavily present in most of the Mediterranean Cuisines. Zaalouk has many cousins around the Med with...
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Quartet of refreshing Moroccan juices: We love vegetables!
It's juicing season. It's already too hot even in London. So I thought it's a good time to share some old Moroccan juices we tend to make during orange harvesting season which is in....fall/early...
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Ramadan in Morocco
Huma, A fellow blogger living in the UAE had the amazing idea of this Ramadan event where each person writes about the way Ramadan and Eid are celebrated in our different countries. I really like the...
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Griouech- M'kherka -Chebbakia Tutorial: THE iconic Moroccan honeyed cookie...
Today's recipe might look complicated but I promise it's not! I'm dedicating it to Griouech or M'kharka, It's a must-have sweet in our Moroccan table during this blessed period.Did you read my post...
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Incredibly delicious Moroccan orange and cinnamon fruit salad
Moroccan orange salad is rather a dessert served at the end of a meal. It's at its best when the oranges are in season.How can an easy recipe such as this one be so good? If you look at the combination...
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Modern Moroccan baghrir with orange sauce
Have you heard of Baghrir? Yes? good! No? We'll fix that!Baghrir is a sort of spongy pancake with many holes. It's usually served with an oozing combination of warm honey and butter. In Fes, we like to...
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Moroccan stuffed harchas with cheese and other things
We love Harcha so much that when Huma (check her incredibly amazing work here) kindly proposed that I write about Ramadan in Morocco from a culinary perspective, I wanted to give harcha the exposure it...
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Mega Harcha galette
I'm a harcha-addict. Nothing wrong with that. But in case you might think my blog is loaded with harcha recipes then I prefer to tell you the reason behind it.Harcha is a semolina galette, head to...
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Moroccan olives and olive oil
Today's post is about olives, olives and olives.We're all about olive oil and olives in Morocco. We have different varieties of both and we consume masses and masses of them.We like our olive oil cold...
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Marinated olives the Moroccan way: 6 ways of making "zitoun mchermel"
This post is all about how to marinate cured olives the Moroccan way. As I have promised in the previous post about Moroccan olives, I'll pass on to you some of our family recipes on how to reproduce...
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Indian-Pakistani inspired curry: a Tikka masala-meets-jalfrezi on a bed of...
Having missed the smell of Indian and Pakistani food in my flat and having my mother over for a month, I thought I'll introduce her to a food she thinks is over-spiced, hot and always containing...
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Moroccan Chicken M'qualli with its sweet butternut paste: M'derbel of pumpkin
At this time of the year, pumpkin, butternut squash and co seem to be everywhere here in London. It was the same thing in Germany where I lived before. I've seen different shapes and form which I have...
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