Cooking: Jewish Moroccan Cuisine
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Moroccan Sfinge Donuts For Chanukah!
Tonight on the 8th and final night of Chanukah we enjoyed a Moroccan treat call sfinge, which are basically fried yeast donuts, and perfect for Chanukah, on account of all the oil that is needed to fry them, yikes. In case you are wondering about that cactus in the middle of the donuts, well that…
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How To Make Moroccan Mufleta Immediately After Passover: We Did It!
History has been made in our family,! For the first time ever we were able to pull off the beloved (by Moroccans and their non-Moroccan friends and neighbors) Moroccan tradition of making mufleta, and throwing a mini-Mimouna party, in our very own home. Wow, I almost can’t believe it! You see for years it was…
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Moroccan Semolina Soup With Veggies Is Perfect Right Now!
Introducing semolina porridge, a simply delicious, quick to whip up, and somewhat exotic soup that is a bare pantry kind of recipe to boot! And dear readers, my version is Moroccan, (well, at least is was, until I decided to add some veggies to the basic recipe……) though I’m thinking other Meditteranean and North African…
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Lacto-Fermented Pickled Vegetables Are Healthy And Delicious!
Fermented foods like pickled vegetables, sourdough bread, kombucha tea, kefir and yogurt, to name a few, are all great ways to eat healthy pro-biotic foods in order to colonize your gut with good things. One of the interesting and really important things that I learned towards the end of 2016 is what a major role…
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Moroccan Marinated Eggplant Slices Without The Frying!
We enjoy a variety of homemade Moroccan salads (okay, they aren’t technically “salad” but that is what they are called in Hebrew) every week for shabbat, and while I have been making smoked Moroccan eggplant salad for years, I recently introduced a few more classic Moroccan eggplant salads to the repertoire, only I’ve managed to…
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Moroccan Matbucha Cooked Tomato Salad
Matbucha, said with a gutteral “ch” is a cooked tomato relish, that is cooked for many hours over a low flame, and whose recipe differs greatly depending on whom you ask! Here in Israel it is called a “salad” and is a universal dish eaten with challah at the shabbat table, together with an array…
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Moroccan Style Halibut Cooked Without What?
The big joke in our house is that the one thing my husband and I disagree on is what kind of fish to serve on Shabbat. You may find this hard to believe, but my Moroccan husband actually requests gefilte fish (which most Moroccans wouldn’t even consider touching….) while I much prefer to serve delicious…
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Moroccan Semolina Soup Is Simple And Perfect For Fall!
My husband at long last introduced us all to the beloved soup his grandmother used to make for the family on winter mornings, it is called shmeed in the Jewish Moroccan language, but we’ll just call it semolina soup, or rather semolina porridge if you’d like to eat it for breakfast! This dish is simple…
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Moroccan Style Hot Peppers!
Moroccan style hot peppers are quite simple to prepare and a perfect way to introduce a little something spicy into your repetoire! And of course if you’re expecting guests who might be used to eating spicy food (and you’re not) so this is a great way to incorporate their desire for something hot, and I…
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Moroccan Mofleta: The First “Bread” After Passover!
Here in Israel, Passover ended last night, and just as soon as we were able to wash all the dishes and pack up all the pots and kitchen items that we use only on Passover, we headed over to a neighbor for a festive post-Passover Moroccan get together called a mimouna. In order to host…
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Moroccan Matbucha Salad
Photo to come hopefully, my matbucha is on the gas, with a few more hours to go! Sorry about that, ran out of time and the matbucha was devoured, better luck (to me) next time! At long last I finally have a good basic recipe for Moroccan matbucha! Matbucha is a cooked tomato salad found…
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Moroccan Pickled Green Plums
Moroccan pickled green plums may not be something you’ve ever heard of, but in my husband’s family they are such a treat that once the jar is opened it gets polished off in no time. The green plum season is very short, so you have to catch them when you can, which is now! I…