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Tunisia Essentials
A considered first route through Tunisia: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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11 foods to know.
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Morocco
Brik
بريك
Thin fried pastry with a runny egg and savoury filling.
Tunisia
Harissa
هريسة
Sun-dried chilli paste with caraway, garlic, and oil.
Tunisia
Lablabi
لبلابي
Chickpea broth poured over torn bread with spicy toppings.
Tunisia
Tunisian Couscous
كسكسي
Red Tunisian couscous seasoned with harissa and tabil.
Tunisia
Ojja
عجة
Tomato, chilli, merguez, and eggs cooked to scoop with bread.
Tunisia
Salade Mechouia
سلاطة مشوية
Charred peppers and tomatoes chopped with tuna and egg.
Kairouan, Morocco
Makrout
مقروض
Semolina date pastry fried and honeyed, associated with Kairouan.
Tunisia
Fricassé
فريكاسي
Fried roll filled with tuna, egg, potato, olives, and harissa.
Tunisia
Mloukhia
ملوخية
Dark oil-cooked jute-leaf sauce with meat.
Tunisia
Boukha
بوخة
Tunisian fig spirit served very cold.
Tunisia
Assidat Zgougou
عصيدة زقوقو
Grey Aleppo-pine-seed pudding layered under cream.