Category: moroccan
An Easy and Delicious Moroccan Carrot Salad
April 9, 2018
Anyone else in need of a post-Pesach reset this week? I love cooking (and eating!) for Passover, but it’s always heavy on the eggs, dairy, sugar—oh yeah, and matzah. By the end of the holiday, I’m ready for a change. I’m also ready to stop spending quite so much time in the kitchen, much as […]
Moroccan Mashed Potato Casserole for Passover (Batata bil Firan)
March 15, 2018
Today I have a great Moroccan Passover mashed potato casserole recipe to share with you. It’s basically a mashed potato kugel with Moroccan flavoring (read: it’s quite a bit more vibrant than your traditional Ashkenazi potato preparation).
Two Purim Breads: Keylitsh and Boyoja Ungola di Purim
February 19, 2018
As a certified carb addict, I’ll never say no to an opportunity to bake some bread. Bread is probably not the first food you think of in association with Purim (or the second, or third), but it turns out there are a wealth of Purim bread-baking traditions in Jewish cultures worldwide.
Moroccan Pumpkin Soup
January 2, 2018
Pumpkin seems like the most all-American of vegetables. There’s jack-o’lanterns at Halloween, pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, and, these days, pumpkin spice lattes all fall long. But long before the advent of the Thanksgivukkah pumpkin donut, Sephardim and Italian Jews incorporated this festive gourd into their autumnal holiday meals. At Sukkot, Bukharians eat stuffed pumpkins while […]