Berber cuisine

The Amazigh (Berber) cuisine is a traditional cuisine that has evolved little in the course of time.

Berber cuisine differs from one area to another within North Africa. Thus, it is not easy to speak about a typically Berber cuisine. A classification is essential, in order to emphasize the specificities of each Berber group. Zayanes of the region of Khénifra around the Middle Atlas have a cuisine of a remarkable simplicity. It is based primarily on corn, barley, ewe's milk, goat cheese, butter, honey, meat, and game. Popular authentic Berber dishes of Tunisian, Moroccan, Algerian, and Libyan cuisine include tajine, couscous, shakshouka, pastilla, msemen, merguez, asida, lablabi, harissa, makroudh, harira, sfenj, and ahriche.

Foods and dishes

Besṭila

Couscous with vegetables

Tajine with carrots

Berber foods and dishes include:

Bouchiar (fine wafer without yeast soaked with butter and natural honey)
Bourjeje (pancake made containing flour, eggs, yeast and salt)
Bread made with traditional yeast
Couscous, a dish enjoyed worldwide
Mechoui or lamb barbecue - a whole sheep roasted in artisanal ovens designed especially for this use. The sheep is coated with natural butter, which makes it tastier. This dish is mainly designed to be served at festivities.
Mamita A pan full with different kinds of vegetables, meat and a lot of spices.
Pastilla – (Berber: besṭila)
Tajine, a very diversified dish, made in various forms:
- Tajine with chicken, lemon and olives
- Tajine with tuna
- Tajine with sardines
- Tajine with lamb meat and caramelized plum
- Tajine with plums
- Tajine with legumes and endives
- Tajine with turkey and potatoes
Tahricht (containing offal: brain, tripe, lung, heart; these ingredients are rolled up with the intestines on a stick of oak and cooked on embers)

Although they are the original inhabitants of North Africa, Berbers lived in very contained communities, in spite of various incursions by Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottomans and French. Having been subject to limited external influences, these populations lived free from factors making for acculturation.

Couscous and tajine are the principal dishes for special feasts and celebrations.

References

Much of the content of this article comes from French-language Wikipedia article, accessed July 31, 2006.

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Berber cuisine

Foods and dishes

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