Main dish
Tagine
Slow-cooked in a clay pot with a cone-shaped lid. Try chicken with preserved lemon and olives, or lamb with prunes and almonds.
Moroccan cuisine
A Feast for Two
What to eat, where to find it and how to eat like a local. Some of our best memories in Morocco happened around a table.
Must-try dishes
The Dishes We Order Again and Again
Friday tradition
Couscous
Steamed semolina with vegetables and meat. Many families eat it together after Friday prayers.
Festive
Pastilla
A crispy pastry pie, often filled with chicken, almonds and cinnamon and dusted with sugar. Sweet and savoury at once.
Soup
Harira
Tomato, lentil and chickpea soup, eaten all year and especially to break the fast during Ramadan.
Marrakech special
Tanjia
Meat slow-cooked for hours in a clay jar, traditionally in the embers of a hammam's fire. A Marrakech favourite.
Breakfast
Msemen & Baghrir
Flaky square pancakes and spongy "thousand-hole" pancakes, served with honey and butter.
Salad
Zaalouk
Smoky aubergine and tomato salad, eaten with fresh bread.
Sweet
Amlou
A spread of argan oil, roasted almonds and honey from the south-west. Perfect on bread at breakfast.
Drink
Mint Tea
Green tea with fresh mint and plenty of sugar, poured from high up to make foam. Saying yes to tea is saying yes to friendship.
How to eat like a local
- Eat with your right hand, using bread to scoop the food.
- Shared dishes are normal: eat from the part of the plate in front of you.
- Bread is respected. People never throw it away.
- Lunch is often the main meal of the day, and dinner can be late.
- In Ramadan, the best food comes out after sunset.
Vegan and vegetarian?
It's easier than you think: vegetable tagines, couscous with seven vegetables, lentils, bissara (fava bean soup) and lots of salads. Just ask if a dish is cooked with meat stock.
Where we eat
Hungry for more?
A cooking class or a food walk is one of the best things to do as a couple.