Category:North African recipes
In this category you will find recipes that contain ingredients and flavours that are likely to originate from North Africa. They won't always be authentic recipes from this area, but they will be delicious. Often food with a Moorish influence. North Africa lies along the Mediterranean Sea and encompasses within its fold several nations, including Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. This is a region marked by geographic, political, social, economic and cultural diversity, and the cuisine and the culinary style and art of North Africa are also as diverse as the land, its people and its history. The roots to North African cuisine can be traced back over 2000 years. Over several centuries traders, travelers, invaders, migrants and immigrants all have influenced the cuisine of North Africa. The Phoenicians of the 1st century brought sausages, the Carthaginians introduced wheat and its byproduct, semolina. The Berbers, adapted this into couscous, one of the main staple diet. Olives and olive oil were introduced before the arrival of the Romans. From the 7th century onwards, the Arabs introduced a variety of spices, like saffron, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger and cloves, which contributed and influenced the culinary culture of North Africa. The Ottoman Turks brought sweet pastries and other bakery products, and from the New World, North Africa got potatoes, tomatoes, and chillies.
Most of the North African countries have several similar dishes, sometimes almost the same dish with a different name (the Moroccan tangia and the Tunisian coucha are both essentially the same dish: a meat stew prepared in an urn and cooked overnight in a public oven), sometimes with a slight change in ingredients and cooking style. To add to the confusion, two completely different dishes may also share the same name (for example, a "tajine" dish is a slow cooked stew in Morocco, whereas the Tunisian "tajine" is a baked omelette/quiche like dish). There are noticeable differences between the cooking styles of different nations - there's the sophisticated, full bodied flavours of Moroccan palace cookery, the fiery dishes of Tunisian cuisine, and the humbler, simpler cuisines of Egypt and Algeria.
We have a list of recommended North African ingredient suppliers.
Pages in category ‘North African recipes’
The following 167 pages are in this category, out of 167 total.
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- Baba ghanoush
- Baba ghanoush with roasted red pepper
- Baharat
- Baharat (V)
- Barbecue flatbread
- Barbecued Harissa lamb
- Basal mahchi (Stuffed onions)
- Basbousa
- Bayd de Zaitun
- Bean salad with fennel and roasted peppers
- Beetroot falafel with toasted halloumi cheese
- Berbere
- Broad Beans with Preserved Lemon
- Broad Beans with Preserved Lemon (V)
- Broccoli couscous
- Broudou bil hout (Fish soup)
- Brouklou bil dersa (Cauliflower in dersa sauce)
- Bulghur wheat salad
- Butternut Squash Soup with Rose Harissa
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- Caribbean tabbouleh
- Moroccan carrot salad
- Carrot and avocado salad
- Carrot salad with grapefruit and orange flower water
- Cauliflower and turmeric fritters
- Chakchouka (Eggs, tomatoes and chillies)
- Chalda loubia khadra (Green beans with almonds)
- Chermoula
- Pot Roasted Mediterranean Chicken
- Ras el hanout chicken (1)
- Ras el hanout chicken (2)
- Sumac baked chicken with pine nuts
- Chicken and orange pilaf
- Belazu Chicken Couscous
- Chicken kadra with Chickpeas, peppers and onions (slow cooker recipe)
- Chicken kadra with Chickpeas, red peppers and raisins
- Chicken tikka kebabs
- Chicken with Preserved Lemon and Olives
- Chickpea salad with red onions goats cheese and paprika
- Chorizo orange and apricot couscous
- Churbat dajaj bil hilba (Chicken soup with hilba)
- Cinnamon yogurt
- Claire Sweeney's Harissa Chicken
- Colourful couscous recipe
- Colourful couscous recipe (V)
- Cornbread recipe (with sweetcorn)
- Couscous with eggs and tomatoes
- Couscous, pepper and garlic salad
- Couscous, pepper and garlic salad (V)
- Couscous, pepper and garlic salad (V) (TM)
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- Ginger-spiced lamb
- Harissa lamb
- Lamb and onion saffron tagine
- Lamb chops, mechoui with hot paprika and cumin salt
- Lamb meatballs
- Braised lamb shanks (slow cooker recipe)
- Braised Lamb Shanks with cherries
- Lamb tagine with tomatoes and peas
- Lamb tangia
- Lamb with garlic, rosemary and anchovies
- Preserved lemons
- Lentil soup
- Liver in sherry vinegar (Lebanese style)
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- Mechouia
- Mechouia (V)
- Megadarra in a Squash
- Minced lamb pittas
- Mitmita powder
- Moroccan chickpea, lentil and spinach stew
- Moroccan chickpea, lentil and spinach stew (V)
- Moroccan kebab sticks
- Moroccan lamb (30 minute recipe)
- Moroccan meatloaf with peppers and pistachios
- Moroccan Red Lentil Soup with Coriander
- Moroccan Red Lentil Soup with Coriander (V)
- Moroccan Spiced Carrots
- Moroccan tuna marinade
- Muhammara recipe
- Muhammara recipe (V)
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- Marinated olives
- Omi houriya (Mashed carrot salad)
- Onion, garlic and chilli relish
- Onion, garlic and chilli relish (V)
- Fennel, red onion and orange salad
- Fennel, red onion and orange salad (V)
- Red onion and orange salad
- Red onion and orange salad (V)
- Osbane es'smid (Meat soup with semolina dumplings)
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- Salatit el bayd tarablousia
- Semolina milk pudding
- Shakshouka
- Sharba (Libyan soup)
- Shepherd's pie with spicy lamb and pine nuts
- Slata michwiya (Grilled salad)
- Slow cooked leg-of-lamb with harissa
- Slow cooker tangerine, leek and harissa lamb
- Slow roast lamb shoulder with a Ras-el-hanout rub
- Spicy carrot and chickpea tagine
- Spicy chickpeas
- Spicy chickpeas (V)
- Spicy honey glazed butternut squash
- Spicy lamb tortillas
- Spicy skewerless kebabs
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- Tabbouleh salad (Belazu)
- Tabil
- Tabil (V)
- Chicken tagine
- Chicken tagine with chermoula
- Lamb tagine
- Pumpkin and green bean tagine
- Summer beef tagine
- Vegetable tagine with apricots and almonds
- Tahini and olive oil dip
- Tahini and yogurt dip
- Tajine bil hoot (Fish Tagine)
- Tajine karnoune bil limoun (Artichoke and lemon tagine)
- Tajine zrodiya (Carrot and lamb tagine)
- Tuna and bean salad with fennel and roasted peppers
- Tunisian salad
- Tunisian salad recipe (V)