Tea in Sahara

A cooked fava beans stew topped with tomatoes, onions and lemon juice. Perfumed with coriander and cumin. a traditional Palestinian recipe.

a traditional stew made with lamb, chicken or fish. today's tajine is called Mrouzia. a sweet and salty lamb shank stew cooked with honey, Ras el hanout and apricots.

Bissara. a hearty lentil soup. good for breakfast or lunch.

There is an old story of how the Moorish kings' servants created rice dishes by mixing the left-overs from royal banquets in large pots to take home. It is said by some that that word paella originates from the Arab word “baqiyah” meaning left-overs.