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Recipes: 16
Categories: 13
Cuisine: Moroccan

A Moroccan tagine on a table set with bread, olives and mint tea

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From slow-cooked tagines to the breads on a Moroccan breakfast table — start wherever you are hungry.

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Moroccan tagine with its conical clay lid lifted, steam rising from the stew inside

Moroccan Tagines

Slow-cooked stews of meat, vegetables and spices, named after the conical clay pot they are made in.

3 recipes

Couscous

Hand-rolled semolina steamed until light, served under seven vegetables or simply with buttermilk.

1 recipe

Bowl of Moroccan harira soup with chickpeas, lentils and fresh coriander

Moroccan Soups

Harira, bissara and the warming bowls that open a Moroccan meal — especially during Ramadan.

1 recipe

Three small dishes of Moroccan cooked salads with flatbread alongside

Moroccan Salads

Cooked and raw salads served in small dishes — zaalouk, taktouka, carrot salad and more.

3 recipes

Moroccan Breakfast

Msemen, baghrir, harcha and the sweet, buttery start to a Moroccan morning.

3 recipes

Moroccan Pastries

Chebakia, briouat, kaab el ghzal — almond, honey and orange blossom in every bite.

3 recipes

Moroccan orange and cinnamon dessert salad in a shallow dish

Moroccan Desserts

Fruit, cream, semolina and rosewater — the lighter sweet end of a Moroccan meal.

3 recipes

Moroccan mint tea poured from a silver teapot into a decorated glass

Moroccan Drinks

Mint tea, avocado smoothies, almond milk and the drinks poured all day long.

2 recipes

Moroccan chicken with preserved lemon and green olives in a serving dish

Chicken Recipes

Preserved lemon, olives, chermoula and saffron — chicken the Moroccan way.

2 recipes

Moroccan beef tagine with prunes, sesame seeds and almonds

Beef & Lamb Recipes

Slow-cooked shoulder, kefta, prunes and almonds — the richest corner of Moroccan cooking.

3 recipes

Moroccan vegetable dishes with chickpeas, aubergine and peppers

Vegetarian Recipes

Morocco's meat-free repertoire is enormous — vegetables, pulses, bread and spice.

9 recipes

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Popular Moroccan Recipes

The dishes people come back to — tested, written out in full, and workable in an ordinary kitchen.

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Moroccan vegetable tagine with carrots, courgette, chickpeas and apricots arranged in a cone

Moroccan Tagines

Moroccan Vegetable Tagine with Chickpeas

Root vegetables, chickpeas and apricots layered in a tagine with ginger, turmeric and preserved lemon, cooked until the sauce thickens around them.

80 minEasy

Moroccan chebakia sesame rosettes glazed with honey on a serving plate

Moroccan Pastries

Chebakia — Moroccan Sesame and Honey Rosettes

Spiced sesame dough folded into flowers, fried until crisp and soaked in warm honey and orange blossom water.

120 minHard

Moroccan beef tagine with glossy prunes, toasted almonds and sesame seeds

Moroccan Tagines

Beef Tagine with Prunes and Almonds

Beef slow-cooked with cinnamon and saffron until tender, finished with honeyed prunes, toasted almonds and sesame seeds.

190 minMedium

Moroccan mint tea poured from a silver teapot into a decorated glass with fresh mint

Moroccan Drinks

Moroccan Mint Tea — Atay bi Na'na'

Gunpowder green tea steeped with a large bunch of spearmint and sugar, then poured from a height into small glasses.

15 minEasy

Moroccan baghrir pancakes covered in tiny holes with honey and butter

Moroccan Breakfast

Baghrir — Moroccan Thousand-Hole Pancakes

Light semolina pancakes cooked on one side only, covered in tiny holes that soak up melted butter and honey.

30 minEasy

Stack of Moroccan msemen flatbread squares with honey drizzled over

Moroccan Breakfast

Msemen — Moroccan Layered Flatbread

Squares of semolina dough stretched paper thin, folded with butter and pan-fried into flaky layers for breakfast with honey and tea.

70 minMedium

Round Moroccan chicken pastilla dusted with icing sugar and cinnamon lines

Main Dishes

Chicken Pastilla — Moroccan Sweet and Savoury Pie

Spiced shredded chicken, almond and egg wrapped in thin warqa pastry, baked until crisp and dusted with icing sugar and cinnamon.

135 minHard

Dish of Moroccan zaalouk aubergine and tomato salad drizzled with olive oil

Moroccan Salads

Zaalouk — Moroccan Smoky Aubergine and Tomato Salad

Aubergine and tomato cooked down with garlic, cumin and paprika until jammy and smoky, served warm or cold with bread.

55 minEasy

Moroccan spices, preserved lemons and olive oil laid out on a table

New to Moroccan cooking?

Seven spices and one good pot

Moroccan food has a reputation for being complicated. Most of it is not. Cumin, ginger, turmeric, paprika, cinnamon, pepper and saffron will carry you through nearly every recipe on this site, and a heavy casserole stands in perfectly well for a clay tagine.

From the journal

Moroccan Food Stories

Guides, traditions and the background to the dishes — written to be read, not skimmed.

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Moroccan breakfast table with msemen, baghrir, olives, honey, cheese and mint tea

Guides

Traditional Moroccan Breakfast Ideas

What a Moroccan breakfast actually looks like, from weekday bread and olive oil to the full Friday spread — and how to put one together at home.

5 August 2026

Several Moroccan clay tagine pots of different sizes on a market table

Guides

The Different Types of Moroccan Tagines

Mqalli, mhammer, mrouzia and the rest — the classic tagine styles, what separates them, and how to choose and use a clay tagine pot.

10 June 2026

Moroccan silver teapot pouring mint tea into a glass from a height

Guides

How to Make Authentic Moroccan Mint Tea

The method, the ritual and the common mistakes — why the leaves are rinsed, why the pour is made from a height, and why there are always three glasses.

14 May 2026

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