Moroccan Recipes
110 recipes found
Meskouta (Moroccan Orange Cake)
A traditional Moroccan cake typically served for tea or breakfast, meskouta is made with ingredients you likely have on hand, and it doesn’t require a mixer. Extra-virgin olive oil makes it moist on the inside and golden on the outside. The cake is excellent on its own, but for something really special, add whipped cream and dark chocolate shavings.
Moroccan Kefta
Kefta is ground beef or lamb mixed with ingredients like fresh herbs, onions, ground cumin and sweet paprika, which are often used in Moroccan cuisine. Moroccans often grill it over charcoal, but it’s very versatile: You can thread kefta onto skewers, as done here, or shape it as a patty to fill a sandwich or even use it as a stuffing for dumplings.
Ras El Hanout Yogurt
Three-ingredient Moroccan Ras El Hanout spiced Yogurt recipe. This comes together in about 5 minutes and tastes delicious on everything! Try it!
Moroccan Montecaos - Melt Away Cinnamon cookies
This Montecao Cookies recipe melt in your mouth and they are totally addictive. I first had them at my Jewish Moroccan friend Henna party in Barcelona.
Green Moroccan Smoothie
I recently made my first trip to Morocco, and it was spectacular. The culture was rich, the colours vibrant, the sounds completely novel to me. And most importantly the food. The food was incredible. Familiar flavour combinations, new flavour combinations, better flavour combinations. Our visit was eye opening, and our cooking class, palette opening. But one thing I ate, or rather, drank, while sitting in Café des Épices in the middle of the Souks of Marrakech, stuck with me. An entirely new flavour combination, creamy, acidic and sweet all at the same time. The secret to its incredible creaminess? Avocado. These ingredients are the epitome of Morocco, in a glass. So until I return, this is me bringing a little Morocco into my kitchen, and I hope yours as well.
Moroccan Chickpeas With Chard
An array of aromatic spices, along with chopped dried apricots and preserved lemons give this chickpea stew a complex, deep flavor, while chard stems and leaves lighten and freshen it up. Served with couscous or flatbread, it’s a satisfying meatless meal on its own. Or serve it with roasted chicken, beef or lamb as a hearty side dish. If you can find rainbow chard, you’ll get the best color here, but any chard variety (red, Swiss, yellow) will work well.
Basic Harissa
This spicy North African condiment has many versions, but usually contains dried hot red pepper, caraway, cumin and garlic. Just a small dab packs quite a punch, and can be used to brighten soups, sauces or marinades. Thinned with olive oil, it’s good drizzled over grilled meat or vegetables. Store it in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
"Moroccan Guacamole" Toasts with Fried Egg
What's not to like about a fried egg and "Moroccan guacamole" avocado toast? Together, they make a pretty rich combo. Whip up this easy breakfast recipe!
Moroccan-Style Almond Milk with Orange Blossom Water & Cinnamon
Refreshing & Sweet Moroccan style Almond Milk infused w/Orange Blossom Water is a delicious & healthy drink which is a favorite in Morocco. I remember drinking this refreshing drink on a hot afternoon in Fes, Morocco this past June!
Chickpea Tagine With Chicken and Apricots
Tagines, the slow-cooked, deeply aromatic stews of North Africa, are traditionally made and served in distinctive clay pots, often with lamb, and usually over couscous. This isn’t a traditional version: It’s fairly quick, and it relies on a heavy-bottomed saucepan rather than a tagine. With chicken thighs, bulgur, chickpeas and dried apricots, it comes together to produce an Americanized version that is a super one-pot dinner, fast enough for a weeknight despite the long ingredient list, and infinitely variable.
Moroccan Tomato Soup
This recipe, originally featured in a 1991 column by Barbara Kafka, was rehashed in a piece by Amanda Hesser in 2009. The idea is simple: Aromatic spices are toasted in a small saucepan, paired with tomatoes, and served chilled. The end result is a refreshing soup, full of flavor.
Moroccan Leg of Lamb With Mint Dressing
When a large crowd is coming over, it’s easy for panic to set in, as the Lee brothers discussed in the 2006 article accompanying this recipe. Their solution? Cooking a big cut of meat. For their first attempt, they looked to lamb, specifically this Moroccan lamb, coated with harissa, lemon zest and juice (which they used as a substitute for preserved lemons), and cured before roasting. The end result, served with a mint dressing, and perhaps a side of couscous or even mashed potatoes, is a satisfying show-stopper.
Moroccan Beet Salad
Couscous With Apricots
Harissa Oil
Rose and Almond Ghriba
These delightful cookies, which are adapted from "Casablanca: My Moroccan Food” by Nargisse Benkabbou (Firefly, 2018), are like a cracked and caky rose lukum, a jelly candy often referred to as Turkish delight. Ghriba is a specific type of cookie that Moroccans bake all year long. Recipes vary depending on the region or the family, but they all have one thing in common: They are cracked on the outside and chewy on the inside. When it comes to ghriba, the flavoring possibilities are endless. The most popular varieties are almond, coconut and walnut.
Pressure Cooker Chicken Tagine With Butternut Squash
This warmly spiced stew is inspired by a Moroccan tagine. The word tagine describes both the clay pot traditionally used to cook the dish and the dish itself. This simplified version combines chicken with dates, which mostly disappear into the stew, imparting a honeyed sweetness. Butternut squash wedges steam on top as the chicken cooks, then get stirred in at the end, thickening the sauce. Find a slow-cooker version of this recipe here.
Slow Cooker Chicken Tagine With Butternut Squash
Inspired by Moroccan tagines, which often pair sweet dried fruit with savory elements, this dish has deep layers of contrasting flavors: warmth and sweetness against acidity and spice. Taking the time to brown chicken skin, sauté onion and toast spices is definitely worth the 20-minute investment here, lending this stew a rich flavor. But if you're really pressed for time, you can skip it. Instead, layer the squash, dates, onion and chicken in the slow cooker, and season everything generously with salt and pepper. Whisk together the oil, ginger, garlic, spices and lemon juice, and pour it on top before cooking. Then finish the dish the same way the recipe directs: Season to taste with lemon and salt and finish with the parsley and scallions.
Moroccan-Style Cornish Hens with Couscous
Couscous with onions and raisins and seasoned with cumin delivers many levels of flavor with rich little Cornish hens, massaged with spices. How many birds you need for four guests will be determined by their size (the birds’ and perhaps the guests’, too). Whether you grill or roast them depends on your mood, your kitchen and the weather. The couscous could even be stuffing for smaller hens, one per person, roasted at 375 degrees for about 50 minutes.
Couscous With Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Red Peppers and Olives
Cauliflower is one of the few cruciferous vegetables you find in North African tagines. The spicy tagines make a good vehicle for this nutrient-rich food and are one of the few types of dishes in which cauliflower can be cooked until quite soft and not lose its appeal.
Couscous with Raisins
Chermoula
Chermoula is a pungent Moroccan herb sauce traditionally served with grilled fish. I think it’s great with all sorts of other dishes, such as roasted cauliflower, roasted winter squash or chicken. Sometimes I stir a little into a couscous, too.
Chorba
In Morocco, chorba refers to a soup that hasn’t been thickened with flour or cream, giving it a light and wholesome consistency. Traditionally, it’s enjoyed during winter and during Ramadan to break the fast. There are many versions of chorba, but this hearty, mostly hands-off version features lamb, chickpeas, potatoes and noodles seasoned with turmeric and saffron for a cozy and aromatic one-pot meal. The lamb adds loads of complex flavor, but feel free to use beef instead.
Moroccan Nachos
This Moroccan twist on the much-loved appetizer features kefta, a ground beef (or lamb) mixture seasoned with parsley, cilantro, mint, paprika and cumin, and a spicy-sweet harissa salsa. Both give these nachos an unusual kick that’s as festive as it is comforting. Creamy guacamole, bright with lemon zest and juice, balances everything out. To save time, cook the kefta mixture and prepare the salsa in advance. Using a combination of fresh and canned tomatoes creates a not-too-runny and not-too-chunky consistency that’s ideal for drizzling over a tray of nachos. That said, feel free to swap the fresh tomatoes for half a 14-ounce can crushed tomatoes or vice versa.