chicken fennel tajine
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Chicken Fennel Tajine Recipe. Cooking with Mahia

Chicken Fennel Tajine made with the Wonderful Mahia by Nahmias et Fils Enjoy the other Recipes I developed using the Mahia Chicken fennel Tajine is ideally simple. It abundantly expresses the way we Moroccans love our food, and why everyone…
Collage of fresh soup, salad, salmon, and pie
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Meatless Dinners. Nine Days. Four Wonderful Complete Menus

Meatless Dinners Meatless Dinners present no challenge whatsoever to me, if only because this is the way we eat at home most weekdays. Fish, salad, soup, vegan high protein pasta, veggie burgers, dairy-free desserts? Yes, gimme! At…
Fennel Orange Salad
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Fennel Orange Salad Recipe

Fennel Orange Salad   Fennel Orange Salad This is a classical and delightful Moroccan dish. Orange, radish and Fennel go incredibly well together! all three flavors play off one another beautifully. It will make you love Fennel…
almond cookies
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Moroccan Almond Cookies Recipe. Ghriba. Vegan.

Almond Cookies We Moroccans love anything made with almonds, whether in cooking or baking. These crescent-shaped almond cookies are a  great Moroccan favorite, called ghriba. Consider them theMoroccan cousins of shortbread cookies.   Traditionally…
Plate of tomato-eggplant stew with lemon wedge
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Moroccan Eggplant Salad Recipe

Moroccan Eggplant Salad Eggplant is a huge favorite in our Sephardi Cooking. We prepare eggplant in dozens of ways, even for dessert! This dish is all roasted, so it is pretty streamlined, and pretty lean. Anything not to have to fry…
nut truffles
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Moroccan Spicy Nut Truffles Recipe

Nut Truffles They are for nut lovers only. All others need not apply. Sort of like the famous Pfeffernusse, only Sephardi style. Moroccan, to be exact. They make a perfect gift too. Move over chocolate, and enjoy your day off: you’re…
Saucy meatballs garnished with fresh herbs
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Moroccan Spicy Meatballs Tajine Recipe

Spicy Meatballs Meatballs are our Sephardi answer to hamburgers. You didn’t think we would let ourselves get outdone, did you? In this dish, chicken livers, chicken breasts and lamb get equal time; the finished dish is above and beyond…
A pan of food on top of the stove.
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Fish Tajine Recipe. Fishballs Variation

Fish Tajine   My Fish Tajine is excerpted from my latest cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen. I just cannot tell you without incurring a serious risk of bragging, how many thousands of my fans make it: it has even become…
Glass jar of preserved lemons with salt
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Preserved Lemons Recipe. Tajine Necessities

Preserved Lemons They are a must in our Moroccan Cuisine. I am happily sharing one of the great secrets of our wonderful cooking. Sorry, but the store-bought variety doesn’t even begin to compare with its homemade counterpart. Preserved…
Hearty white bean and greens soup
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Moroccan Spinach Lamb Soup Recipe

Lamb Soup is overlaid with Moroccan flavors. Mine smells as heavenly as it tastes. We know our lamb! For many years, my classroom was in Lincoln Square Synagogue. The teacher himself later told me that he found teaching exquisite torture…
Lamb dried fruit tajine
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Moroccan Lamb Dried Fruit Tajine Recipe

Lamb Dried Fruit Tajine Talk about a glowing example of how a just little work can lead to a glorious feast! Such is the magic of Moroccan cooking. Stovetop Cooking is THE BEST! You will make a sensation on Passover and all year-round…
pastilla
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Pastilla Recipe. Working with Fillo

Pastilla Not for nothing has it been voted one of the world’s great dishes. It takes just one delightful bite to understand why. Pastilla epitomizes Moroccan cuisine, spicy and sweet, delicate and intriguing. Pastilla is a little…