typical moroccan food

1. Typical Moroccan Food
Fátima El Omari Ahmed

2. 1. B’ssara
 At a few pennies a bowl, this rich soup of dried broad
beans is traditionally served for breakfast, topped with
a swirl of olive oil, a sprinkling of cumin and bread fresh
from the oven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuFPXFVS3eI

3. 2. Tagine
 tagine is the clay cooking pot with a conical lid that
gives its name to a myriad of dishes. Tagines can be
seen bubbling away at every roadside café, are found
in top notch restaurants and in every home, and are
always served with bread.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpsUQ7SbTXs

4. 3. Harira
 During the holy month of Ramadan, the fast is broken at
sunset each day with a steaming bowl of harira soup. Rich
with tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas and lamb, it is finished off
with a squeeze of lemon juice and some chopped
coriander, and served with a sticky sweet pretzel
called chebakkiya.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5FGXkegirU

5. 4. Couscous
Seksu’ or couscous is a fine wheat pasta traditionally
rolled by hand. It is steamed over a stew of meat and
vegetables. To serve, the meat is covered by a pyramid of
couscous, the vegetables are pressed into the sides and
the sauce served separately. It is often garnished with a
sweet raisin preserve, or in the Berber tradition, with a
bowl of buttermilk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZEdX4Wuf0

6. 5. B’stilla
This very special pie represents the pinnacle of exquisite
Fassi (from Fez) cuisine. Layers of a paper-thin pastry
coddle a blend of pigeon meat, almonds and eggs spiced
with saffron, cinnamon and fresh coriander, the whole
dusted with icing sugar and cinnamon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Deq-xU3_I

7. 6. Mint Tea
Known as ‘Moroccan whisky’, mint tea is the drink
of choice. It is usually heavily sweetened with sugar
chipped off a sugar cone. Gunpowder tea is
steeped with a few sprigs of spearmint stuffed into
the teapot. It is poured into a tea glass from a
height to create a froth called the crown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IazhvG1bLCU

8. Works Cited (delicious)
 https://del.icio.us/fatimadrid94