Moroccan

The Maghreb

Moroccan cooking layers sweet and savoury with a warm hand of spice — cumin, ginger, saffron, cinnamon. It is the slow tagine, the saffron-laced harira that breaks the fast, fluffy steamed couscous, and the smoky charred-eggplant zaalouk.

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A bowl of rich red-brown Moroccan harira thick with chickpeas, lentils and herbs, a swirl of steam rising, with lemon wedges, dates and a sticky chebakia pastry on the side.

Morocco (Maghreb) · Moroccan

Harira (Moroccan Chickpea, Lentil and Tomato Soup)

Morocco's beloved soup: a hearty, tangy broth of chickpeas, lentils and tomatoes thickened with a flour-and-water tadouira, fragrant with ginger, turmeric and a flurry of herbs. The traditional dish for breaking the Ramadan fast.

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A traditional conical clay tagine open to reveal golden saffron-stained chicken pieces in a rich onion sauce, topped with slices of preserved lemon, green olives, and fresh coriander.

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Morocco · Moroccan

Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemon and Olives

The classic of the Moroccan table: chicken slow-cooked with preserved lemon, green olives, ginger, and saffron until the meat slips off the bone in a golden, deeply savoury sauce. Aromatic, gently spiced, and far easier than it looks.

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A large platter mounded with pale fluffy couscous crowned with carrots, turnip, golden squash, courgette and chickpeas in a fragrant broth, steam rising, a bowl of red harissa beside it.

Vegan

Morocco (Maghreb) · Moroccan

Moroccan Vegetable Couscous (Seven-Vegetable Couscous)

The Friday couscous: fluffy steamed semolina mounded under a fragrant broth of seven vegetables — carrots, turnip, squash, courgette, chickpeas and more — gently spiced and slow-simmered. A celebratory one-pot for the table.

IntermediateMainsMediterranean

A shallow dish of jammy red-brown Moroccan zaalouk made of mashed smoky eggplant and tomato flecked with green coriander, glossy with olive oil, crusty bread alongside for scooping.

Vegan

Morocco (Maghreb) · Moroccan

Zaalouk (Moroccan Smoky Eggplant and Tomato Salad)

A Moroccan cooked salad to love: charred eggplant and tomato melted down with garlic, cumin, paprika and coriander into a smoky, jammy dip. Scooped with bread, warm or at room temperature, on every Moroccan table.

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