Puff pastry is truly a worldwide recipe. Many countries have an array of pastries based on it. Many countries have a form or another of laminated dough (we have Msemmens or old-style laminated sweet bread). The Arabs and Andalusian have been laminating dough with oil or any fat as far as the 10th century and […]
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Homemade Moroccan warqa(or ouarka) sheets
Ouarka/warka/warqa sheets are to Moroccan cuisine what filo/phyllo is to the Balkan/Levant Cuisine. It’s so important to have it around or at least to know where to buy it when needed. How they made warka in the past I still recall my mother making it the old way which was more demanding. She had to […]
How to make Moroccan Msemmen: recipe and tutorial
North African Msemmen is a soft of laminated dough which comes in different forms It can also be laminated with different types of fat. Msemmen can be stuffed or unstuffed but surely cooked in a pan with a heavy bottom. When they are baked or fried in oil, we call them Rghayefs, although these days […]
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