Delicious Moroccan Foods

This is a recipe for the dough used to make msemen, a flattened square-shaped rghaif. The dough is kneaded like bread dough until soft and smooth. How to Fold and Make Msemen(below) shows how to flatten portions of the dough and fold them into squares. Frying the dough in a pan yields a layered pancake or flatbread that is crispy ...

Briouats are small Moroccan pastries which are stuffed with a variety of fillings and then fried. This recipe features ground meat (kefta, kofta or kufta) enclosed in crisp, paper-thin Moroccan pastry called warqa. Phyllo (fillo) dough or spring roll wrappers can be substituted for the warqa. Kefta briouats are usually...

If you like fruit bar cookies and fruit filled pastries, particularly those made with dates, then you're in for a treat with this North African pastry recipe. Makrout are semolina cookies which came to Morocco via Tunisia and Algeria. A homemade date paste is enclosed within the dough and once cooked, the cookies get further treatment...

1-Moroccan Mint Tea and Moroccan Tea Culture: Historians differ as to when they believe tea was introduced to Moroccan culture. Although some say it may have been as early as the 12th century, others claim that it was only as recent as the 18th century. If the latter is correct, Moroccans were quick to embrace tea drinking as a norm of their ...