Moroccan Cuisine

By Kwasny Dariusz

Introduction to the Moroccan cuisine
Moroccan cuisine demonstrates many influences, from its past times. Moroccan food is a mixture of Arabs and Berbers cultures and is also inspired by southern Europe, as it includes Mutton, vegetables and dairy.

Moroccan dishes
An ordinary Moroccan meal consists of main dish along with salads, sauces, deserts and drinks. Most popular main dishes in Morocco are B’ssara, Harira, tagine, beef and lamb mince.

Traditional Moroccan recipes
Some dishes are very famous and are commonly used in Morocco. These dishes carry old traditional taste with unique flavours and are the sign of Morocco.

Moroccan street food
Food in Moroccan streets plays a significant and vibrant role in Moroccan culture. It is full of aroma and spices. Most delicious food is found at Moroccan street stalls not in restaurants.

Restaurants in Morocco
World’s best international restaurants are found in Morocco. From cheap to reasonable and then to expensive all kinds of food is available there.

Delicious Moroccan starters
Moroccan starters carry a significant role in a meal. A huge range of starters are being used in Morocco like Moroccan salmon cakes with garlic and mayonnaise. It is an alternate of salmon pastry.

Moroccan side dishes
Moroccan side dishes are very tasty and play a vital role to make a meal perfect. Moroccan meat ball tagine with lemon and olives is a unique side dish with citrus and savoury taste.

Tasty Moroccan deserts
Moroccan cuisine includes a great variety of deserts. These delicious deserts are very important to make a meal complete. Cinnamon Oranges, Moroccan fruit salad, Moroccan citrus fruit salad and North African orange salad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ebozon Verlag
• Release date: Mar 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9783959635011

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Dariusz Kwasny

Moroccan

Cuisine

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Chapter no 1: An introduction to the Moroccan cuisine

Morocco is situated on the north western corner of Africa. This North African country is having Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea on its border. Morocco is the 5th largest Arab country in population and with dominating cultural influences of Berbers and Arabians Europe shows many resemblances to these nations.

Moroccan cuisine is one of the world’s best cuisines. It is affected and evolved by the interactions of Moroccans with different cultures from hundreds of years and having influences of different nations.

Moroccan cuisine shows influences of Africa, Middle East, India and China with some effects of Spanish, Portuguese and French food customs to design a cuisine.

We can simply narrate the Moroccan food as full of colours, spices, sweetness, and with scented aroma. Moroccan foodies just look like an admirable and delicious adventure on the table. It has a great range of dishes with combination of ancient spices well equipped with modern taste. Moroccan cuisine is so spice centric today.

As Paula Wolf ret the author of The Food Of Morocco says it’s a different way of eating with different flavour combinations including sweet and savoury spices, it’s so different than any other food you will experience in the Mediterranean.

The most basic spices in Moroccan cuisine are cinnamon, cumin, saffron, turmeric ground ginger, black pepper, white pepper, hotels red peppers, sweet paprika, aniseed and sesame seeds and many more. These all spices mix and interact with each other to create an unbelievable mouth-watering taste.

Only the way is the art to use them intelligently to make a great taste. The attraction of the Moroccan cuisine is to use only fresh spices, this is a big rule about spices that they buy spices as a whole and then grind those spices themselves. These fresh spices add marvellous flavours in the food because old spices can't manage flavours and taste.

The most popular dish in Morocco is couscous with old and traditional taste. Most people are familiar with this dish. Red meat specially beef