Algeria

🇩🇿Algeria

Khobz Eddar

خبز الدار

Round semolina house bread enriched with egg and butter, decorated with seeds and baked for feast days.

🇩🇿Algeria

Lham Lahlou

لحم حلو

Lamb cooked with prunes, raisins, cinnamon, orange-blossom water and sugar into a dish that is frankly a dessert with meat in it.

🇩🇿Algeria

Loubia

A Moroccan white bean stew simmered with tomato, garlic, paprika, and cumin.

🇩🇿Algeria

Maaqouda

معقودة

Mashed potato patties seasoned with garlic, parsley and cumin, dipped in egg and deep-fried until crusted.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mahjouba

محاجب

Semolina dough stretched paper-thin on an oiled surface, folded around a cooked onion, tomato and pepper filling, and griddled.

🇩🇿Constantine, Algeria

Makroud el Louse

مقروض اللوز

Almond paste shaped into diamonds, poached briefly, dipped in lemon syrup and rolled in icing sugar.

🇲🇦Kairouan, Morocco

Makrout

مقروض

Semolina pastry wrapped around date paste, fried or baked, and finished with honey; named forms are shared across the Maghreb.

🇩🇿Tlemcen, Algeria

Marqa Bel Assel

مرقة بالعسل

Lamb stewed with prunes, honey, cinnamon and orange-flower water until the sauce turns dark and sweet.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mazagran

مازاغران

Cold sweetened coffee with lemon, said to have been drunk by French soldiers at Mazagran in the 1840s and claimed as the first iced coffee.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mbesses

مبسس

Semolina, butter and sugar pressed into a pan and baked or griddled into a crumbly, sandy cake cut into diamonds.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mesfouf

مسفوف

Light steamed couscous tossed with butter, sugar, dried fruit, or pomegranate and served for breakfast or gatherings.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mhamsa

An Algerian dish of large, hand-rolled pasta pearls simmered with meat and vegetables.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mkhabez

مخبز

Ground almond and sugar biscuits shaped by hand and finished with a hard, pastel-coloured icing.

🇩🇿Constantine, Algeria

Mousse Jawzia

موس جوزية

Ground walnuts bound with sugar syrup and set into a chewy, dense sweet cut into squares.

🇲🇦Morocco

Msemen

مسمن

Square layered Moroccan flatbread made by stretching, folding, and pan-frying oiled dough.

🇩🇿Algeria

Osbane

عصبان

Osbane is a stuffed sausage of casing, rice, offal, herbs, and spices made in Algerian, Tunisian, and Libyan kitchens.

🇩🇿Algeria

Ouazouaza (Ideffi)

An Algerian drink of roasted barley or wheat blended with milk and sugar, nutty and filling.

🇩🇿Algeria

Ras el Hanout

رأس الحانوت

A Moroccan spice blend whose shop-specific mix may include cumin, ginger, pepper, cinnamon, and turmeric.

🇩🇿Algiers, Algeria

Rechta

رشتة

Hand-cut fresh pasta ribbons steamed and served in a white broth of chicken, turnip, courgette and chickpeas scented with cinnamon.

🇩🇿Algeria

Rougag

رقاق

Very thin sheets of semolina dough spread with the hand on a hot plate and cooked in seconds until dry and brittle.

🇩🇿Algeria

Samsa

سمسة

Triangles of malsouka pastry layered with ground almond and sesame, fried and soaked in rose or geranium syrup.

🇩🇿Algeria

Seffa

السفة

A celebration mound of steamed couscous or vermicelli finished with butter, sugar, cinnamon, and almonds.

🇪🇬Egypt

Shakshuka

شكشوكة

Eggs poached in a simmering tomato, pepper, onion, garlic, and chilli sauce, with regional names and seasonings across North Africa.

🇲🇦Morocco

Smen (Preserved Butter)

سمن

Moroccan butter clarified and aged with salt and aromatics until it develops a strong savoury perfume.

🇩🇿Algeria

Sudanese Zalabia

Zalabia

Loose yeasted batter dropped into hot oil in irregular blobs, drained and rolled in sugar or soaked in syrup.

🇩🇿Algeria

Tajine Zitoune

طاجين زيتون

Chicken or veal simmered in a white sauce with green olives, mushrooms and carrot, thickened with egg and lemon.

🇩🇿Tlemcen, Algeria

Takemmarit

تكمريت

Traditional cheese from the west of the country, curdled with kid rennet and pressed into small rounds.

🇩🇿Algeria

Tamina

طمينة

Semolina toasted in butter until it browns, then mixed with honey and cinnamon into a dense paste and pressed flat.

🇩🇿Algeria

Tchicha

تشيشة

Crushed barley or freekeh cooked into a thick soup with lamb, chickpeas and vegetables, eaten in the Aurès and the east.

🇩🇿Algeria

Tikourbabine (Asban)

An Algerian pasta dish of small, hand-rolled pasta dumplings simmered in a spiced sauce.

🇪🇬Egypt

Torshi (Pickles)

طرشي

A Egyptian pickled vegetables with turnips, carrots, peppers, and cucumbers in vinegar, a daily and essential side

🇩🇿Algeria

Trida

تريدة

Small squares of dried pasta steamed and served in a white chicken and chickpea sauce with cinnamon.

🇹🇳Sfax, Tunisia

Tunisian Baklawa

بقلاوة

A Tunisian baklava of layers of thin pastry interspersed with ground pine nuts, almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios, brushed with butter and dipped in honey syrup.

🇩🇿Algeria

Zalabia

زلابية

Small coils or balls of fermented batter fried until crisp, then soaked in syrup or dusted with sugar at Egyptian sweet shops.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Za’atar

زعتر

A Levantine blend of dried thyme or oregano, sumac, toasted sesame and salt, used on flatbreads, with labneh and as a table seasoning.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Zlabia

زلابية

Batter piped into hot oil in lacy loops, fried crisp and dropped straight into honey syrup, sold by weight in Ramadan.