Tunisia

🇹🇳Tunisia

Kaak Warka

كعك ورقة

Ring of thin dough filled with almond paste scented with geranium water, baked pale and dusted with icing sugar.

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Kabkabou

قبقابو

Fish baked with preserved lemon, capers, olives and tomato in a shallow dish until the sauce reduces around it.

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Kaddid

قديد

Strips of lamb or beef rubbed with coriander, caraway and garlic and dried in the sun, then kept under olive oil and dropped into stews.

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Kafteji

كفتاجي

Fried peppers, courgette, potato, pumpkin, tomato and egg chopped together on the board into a coarse mash and served hot with bread.

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Kammounia

كمونية

Liver or beef stewed in a sauce dominated by cumin — the name is the spice — with garlic, tomato and harissa.

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Kerkennaise

A fish specialty of the Kerkennah Islands: fish simmered in a tomato and herb sauce.

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Khobz Mbesses

خبز مبسس

A traditional Tunisian semolina bread baked with olive oil and salt, dense and crumbly, served with stews, harissa and olive oil.

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Khobz Tabouna

خبز طابونة

Round semolina loaf baked against the wall of a clay tabouna oven, with a dense chewy crumb and a blistered underside.

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Lablabi

لبلابي

Chickpeas in cumin-and-garlic broth poured over torn stale bread in a bowl, then built up with harissa, olive oil, tuna, egg, capers and pickled lemon.

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Laghmi

لاقمي

Sap tapped from the crown of a date palm and drunk the same day — sweet and milky in the morning, fermented and alcoholic by evening.

🇩🇿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.

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Madfouna

مدفونة

Chard and lamb stewed with chickpeas until the greens collapse into a dark, oily sauce — a Gafsa and southern dish.

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Makarouna

مكرونة

A Tunisian pasta dish of macaroni or penne cooked in a spicy tomato sauce with meat, chickpeas and vegetables, a hearty everyday meal.

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Makloub

A Tunisian sandwich of chickpea fritters, potatoes, tuna, and harissa in a baguette.

🇲🇦Kairouan, Morocco

Makrout

مقروض

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

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Marqa

مرقة

The general Tunisian stew — lamb or chicken with a seasonal vegetable in a tomato and harissa base, thickened with olive oil.

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Masfouf

مسفوف

Sweet steamed couscous with butter, sugar, raisins, dates and pomegranate seeds or almonds, eaten at breakfast and in Ramadan.

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Mermez

مرمز

Lamb and chickpeas stewed with onion and a great deal of black pepper into a pale, unspiced broth — one of the few Tunisian dishes with no harissa.

🇩🇿Algeria

Mesfouf

مسفوف

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

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Mhalbiya

محلبية

Rice-flour pudding perfumed with geranium or rose water, set in small dishes and scattered with pistachio.

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Mint Tea with Pine Nuts

شاي بالصنوبر

Strong green tea boiled with mint and sugar and poured over a spoonful of pine nuts or roasted almonds sitting in the glass.

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Mkharek

A Tunisian semolina pastry filled with almond paste or dates, shaped into crescents and baked.

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Mlabbes

Tunisian sugar-coated almonds or peanuts, candy-coated and often pastel-colored.

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Mlawi

ملاوي

Layered pan-fried flatbread folded repeatedly with oil so it separates into leaves, served plain with harissa or wrapped around filling.

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Mloukhia

ملوخية

Tunisian powdered jute leaf slowly cooked in oil into a nearly black, glossy sauce with beef or lamb.

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Mosli

موسلي

A Tunisian baked chicken dish marinated in a spicy blend of harissa, garlic, cumin and olive oil, roasted until golden and tender.

🇲🇦Morocco

Msemen

مسمن

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

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Muscat de Kelibia

مسكات قليبية

Dry white from Muscat d'Alexandrie grown on the Cap Bon peninsula around Kelibia — aromatic on the nose but bone dry on the palate.

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Nwasser

نواصر

Squares of thin hand-cut pasta steamed like couscous and served with a chicken or lamb stew poured over.

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Ojja

عجة

Tomatoes and peppers cooked down with harissa and garlic, with merguez or prawns added and eggs broken in at the end.

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Omek Houria

أمك هورية

A Tunisian cooked carrot salad with garlic, harissa, olive oil and sometimes tuna, served as a meze or side, with a smooth, spicy-sweet flavour.

🇩🇿Algeria

Osbane

عصبان

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

🇹🇳Sfax, Tunisia

Poisson Complet

بواسون كومبلي

Grilled fish served as a full plate with fried potatoes, salade mechouia, tastira, olives, harissa and a fried egg or brik.

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Qahwa Arbi

قهوة عربي

Coffee ground very fine with a little rose water or geranium, boiled in a pot and served in small cups with the grounds settling.

🇩🇿Algeria

Ras el Hanout

رأس الحانوت

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