Tagines & Stews

Chicken braised in saffron-turmeric gravy with preserved lemon and olives.

Lamb braised with smen and saffron, then oven-roasted to a caramel crust.

Spiced meatballs in garlic-tomato sauce with eggs poached on top.

Friday couscous heaped with seven slow-simmered vegetables and broth.

Bone-in lamb sealed in a clay urn with saffron, smen, and preserved lemon.

Sweet-savory beef with prunes under sesame and fried almonds.

Chermoula-marinated fish gently simmered over a bed of vegetables.

Warqa pie of poultry, onion-egg custard, and cinnamon almonds.

Chicken, lentils, and fenugreek broth ladled over shredded msemen.

Light Algerian chicken simmered with olives in a saffron-tinged sauce.

Preserve-style Eid tagine of lamb, ras el hanout, honey, and raisins.

Chicken seared in fiery dersa — garlic, chile, and cumin — with chickpeas.

White beans in a tomato-garlic sauce warmed with cumin and paprika.

Chopped jute-mallow soup, glossy and green, served over rabbit.

Green beans braised soft in tomato, with or without tender beef.

Saharan camel meat slow-cooked with Moroccan savory spices.

Autumn lamb paired with honeyed quince in a warm spiced sauce.

Spring artichoke bottoms and peas in a light, herb-bright tagine.

Wild mallow cooked down with garlic, olives, and preserved lemon.

Celebration chicken under reduced onion sauce, fried almonds, and eggs.

Coastal sardine kefta simmered in a tomato-chermoula sauce.

Couscous enriched with salt-dried kaddid beef and slow broth.

The “sweet stew” — meat with prunes, apricots, raisins, and nuts.

Tripe casings packed with rice, herbs, and chickpeas, gently simmered.

Torn rougag flatbread soaked under a spicy lamb-and-chickpea stew.

Sabbath beef, chickpeas, potatoes, and shell-on eggs, cooked overnight.

Hand-rolled semolina pearls in a hearty vegetable-chickpea broth.

Fleshy cardoon ribs braised with lamb in a pale, lemony sauce.

Coastal Tunisian marqa of squid and chickpeas in tomato-harissa.

Goat slow-braised with dried figs and warm spices until falling apart.