Tunisia

🇹🇳Tunisia

Ain Sbaniouria

عين صبنورية

A Tunisian meat roll of spiced minced meat stuffed with hard-boiled eggs, simmered in a tomato sauce, named 'Spanish eye' for its appearance.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Ajlouk Quraa

A Tunisian squash salad of cooked pumpkin or zucchini mashed with garlic, olive oil, and spices.

🇩🇿Algeria

Algerian Merguez

مرقاز

Merguez is a red, paprika-and-garlic lamb sausage with long-established Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan, and Libyan forms.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Assidat Zgougou

عصيدة زقوقو

Aleppo pine seeds ground and cooked into a dark grey pudding, layered with pastry cream and topped with nuts.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Baklava

بقلاوة

Layers of paper-thin phyllo brushed with butter and filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios, baked crisp then drenched in lemon- or rose-scented sugar syrup. One square, cut diamond-small, is the shared Ottoman dessert of the whole eastern Mediterranean.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Bambalouni

بمبالوني

Ring of yeasted dough deep-fried to order and rolled in granulated sugar, sold from small windows and eaten immediately.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Banatages

A Tunisian potato gratin baked with a creamy, spiced sauce until golden.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Batata Bel Kamoun

Tunisian potatoes simmered with cumin (kamoun), garlic, and harissa until coated in a fragrant sauce.

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Berkoukech

بركوكش

Large hand-rolled semolina pellets cooked in a spiced tomato and lamb broth into something between a soup and a stew.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Borzgane

برزقان

A festive Tunisian sweet-savoury couscous with crunchy dried fruits, tender meat and spices, traditionally prepared to welcome spring.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Boukha

بوخة

Clear spirit distilled from figs by Tunisia's Jewish community since the nineteenth century, around 36–40% and drunk cold or with cola.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Bouza

بوزة

Thick sorghum or hazelnut cream cooked with milk and served cold in a glass with crushed nuts — sold from dedicated shops in winter.

🇲🇦Morocco

Brik

بريك

Thin malsouka pastry folded around egg, tuna, potato, capers, or herbs and fried until the shell shatters.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Bsissa

بسيسة

Roasted barley or wheat ground with chickpeas, fenugreek and spices into a flour, mixed with olive oil and dates or with water into a drink.

🇹🇷Turkey

Börek

Boşnak böreği

Layered pastries made from thin yufka dough sheets, filled with cheese, spinach, potatoes, or ground meat, and either baked or fried. Varieties include su böreği, which is boiled before baking for a moist, custard-like texture, and sigara böreği, crisp rolled cylinders. Börek is eaten at breakfast, as a snack, or as part of a meze spread.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Casse-Croûte Tounsi

The Tunisian fast-food sandwich: a crusty baguette stuffed with tuna or merguez, harissa, egg, olives, and vegetables.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Celtia

سلتيا

Pale lager brewed in Tunis since 1951, the country's dominant beer and the default bottle in a coastal bar.

🇹🇳Sfax, Tunisia

Chapati

شباتي

Soft round flatbread split and packed with grilled meat, harissa, cheese and salad — a Sfax invention that spread nationally.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Chebtkia

A Tunisian fried pastry of twisted dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with sesame — a Ramadan treat.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Chorba Frik

شربة فريك

Green cracked wheat cooked in a tomato-and-lamb broth with celery leaf and harissa, thickened by the grain itself.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Citronnade

سيترونادة

Whole lemons blended with sugar, water and ice, skin and all, into a thick cloudy drink served in a tall glass.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Cornes de Gazelle

Tunisian 'gazelle horns': crescent pastries of almond paste wrapped in thin pastry, scented with orange blossom.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Coucha

قوشة

Lamb shoulder rubbed with turmeric, garlic and chilli and baked slowly in a sealed clay pot with potatoes until it falls apart.

🇩🇿Algeria

Couscous

كسكس

Steamed semolina granules served with vegetables, pulses, meat, or fish; couscous has distinct preparations across North Africa.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Doria

A Tunisian pasta dish of small noodles cooked with chickpeas, tomatoes, and spices.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Droo

درو

Warm sorghum porridge cooked with milk and sugar and topped with nuts and dried fruit, eaten in winter and after childbirth.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Farfoucha

A Tunisian salad of roasted green peppers, tomatoes, and garlic, mashed with olive oil.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Felfel Mahchi

فلفل محشي

Tunisian sweet peppers stuffed with spiced minced lamb, rice and herbs, simmered in a tomato and harissa sauce, a festive everyday dish.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Fricassé

فريكاسي

Small deep-fried bread roll split and filled with tuna, olives, boiled egg, potato and harissa — the standard Tunisian sandwich.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Ghraiba

غريبة

Short crumbly biscuit of chickpea flour, semolina or almond with sugar and oil, baked pale and eaten with tea.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Guenaoia

قناوية

A Tunisian lamb or beef stew with okra, chillies, coriander and spices in a rich tomato sauce, a hearty everyday stew.

🇲🇦Morocco

Harissa

هريسة

A red chilli paste seasoned with garlic, cumin, and oil, used to sharpen Moroccan soups, tagines, and sandwiches.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Harissa

هريسة

Sun-dried red chillies pounded with garlic, caraway and coriander seed into a thick paste under a film of olive oil — recognised by UNESCO in 2022 as Tunisian heritage.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Hergma

A Tunisian tripe dish simmered with chickpeas, garlic, and spices until tender.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Hlelem

هلالم

Winter soup of hand-rolled noodle threads with chickpeas, white beans, chard and dried meat in a red broth.

🇲🇦Morocco

Hout Tagine (Fish)

طاجين الحوت

Fish baked or simmered in a Moroccan tagine with tomato, preserved lemon, olives, or chermoula.