Morocco Recipes
Where the Sahara meets the sea and spice routes crossed. Here are 6 authentic Morocco recipes, each from a specific region, with cultural context and dietary substitutions for every table.
6 recipes
🇲🇦 Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemon & Olives
Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco · medium · 80 min
Slow-braised chicken perfumed with saffron and ginger, brightened by salty preserved lemon and green olives.
🇲🇦 Harira
Fès-Meknès, Morocco · medium · 70 min
The tomato, lentil, and chickpea soup that breaks the fast across Morocco — silky, herbal, and lemon-bright.
🇲🇦 Chicken Bastilla
Casablanca-Settat, Morocco · advanced · 105 min
A sweet-savory pie of spiced shredded chicken and almonds in crackling pastry, dusted with sugar and cinnamon.
🇲🇦 Kefta Mkaouara (Meatball Tagine)
Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco · easy · 55 min
Spiced meatballs simmered in a cumin-scented tomato sauce with eggs cracked on top — a bubbling tagine eaten with bread.
🇲🇦 Moroccan Mint Tea
Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco · easy · 15 min
Sweet green tea steeped with fresh spearmint and poured from a height into little glasses.
🇲🇦 Baghrir
Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco · easy · 35 min
Spongy "thousand-hole" semolina pancakes drenched in a warm honey-and-butter syrup.