Best Moroccan Recipes (2024)

This summer-ready recipe brings flavour and fun to your BBQ. The moroccan spiced pork works perfectly with spicy slaw and all combines deliciously in a wholemeal wrap.

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Mint tea is Morocco’s staple drink, found on every street corner and café being poured out of a silver jug into tea glasses. To give it that authentic citrus flavour, the secret ingredient is dried verbena leaves.

Try this Moroccan mint tea recipe

This juicy, earthy casserole of lentils and greens topped with cubed pumpkin and studded with shred of meat confit is delicious. Duck confit is readily available in most supermarkets.

Try this lentils with Swiss chard, butternut squash and duck confit recipe

This recipe comes from the Souss, where argan oil is produced and is often used to flavour all sorts of dishes, including this tagine. You don’t need to use it, but if you’ve been to that part of Morocco and have eaten this tagine there, you’ll miss it if you don’t. Use Medjoul dates, pitted or unpitted as you wish, for this unusual tagine.

Try this lamb tagine with medjoul dates recipe

This beautifully bright Moroccan dish is the perfect comfort food.

Try this chicken with fennel, preserved lemon and olives recipe

Chermoula is a delicious, citrusy marinade that also works well with salmon or vegetables. If you can’t find preserved lemons, add a tablespoon of white wine vinegar instead.

Try this marinated chermoula chicken skewers recipe

This sweet pastry filled with dried apricots and dusted with cinnamon is deliciously aromatic and moreish.

Try this M’hancha recipe

These tasty meatballs are also great in a rich tomato sauce. Add cumin to the sauce for an authentic Moroccan taste.

Try this Moroccan lamb meatball kebabs recipe

A spicy bowl of harira, a handful of dates and a sweet pastry is the traditional Moroccan way to break the fast at dusk during Ramadan. Or enjoy as a main meal with bread and salad.

Try this harira recipe

Sweet, succulent and delicious served with almond biscuits, for the perfect Moroccan dessert.

Try this poached pears with prunes recipe

This bulgur wheat salad is a riot of fresh, zingy flavours. A classic Middle Eastern dish, it’s perfect served with crisp lettuce leaves. It also works well with quinoa.

Try this taboulleh salad recipe

This colourful dip is perfect served with crudites. It is also delicious spread inside pitta bread and filled with barbecued meatballs.

Try this beetroot, yoghurt and mint dip recipe

This succulent and zesty dish is a Moroccan staple and is delicious served with couscous.

Try this chicken and artichoke tagine recipe

This addictive and vibrant dip is delicious spread on bread. If you want more of a kick, add more harissa (a hot chilli sauce, from supermarkets).

Try this pumpkin harissa dip recipe

This spicy tagine of lamb meatballs, sweet paprika and eggs served in a tomato sauce is beautifully spiced and delicious served with couscous.

Try this meatball tagine recipe

Couscous is the national dish of Morocco. The grain is steamed and served with a stew or broth or with a garnish. A quick but delicious way to eat couscous is to combine the cooked grain with a mixture of roast and raw vegetables and herbs. This is a sublime salad to eat with meat or fish, or on its own.

Try this couscous with roasted vegetables and fresh mint recipe