r/arabs Oct 27 '24

مجلس Cultural Exchange: r/JewsOfConscience

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u/ContentChecker Oct 27 '24

Hi all,

What is your favorite food?

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u/historyhoneybee 🇨🇦 Oct 27 '24

My favourite is molokhia. It's this green stew made with jute I believe. I like to eat it with rice with vermicelli, but some people eat it with bread. It looks a little strange but it's very tasty. I had it so much growing up so it's my comfort food. What's your favourite food?

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u/ContentChecker Oct 27 '24

I looked up some pictures of that, and it looks/sounds amazing!

When I used to live in the city, there was a great Lebanese restaurant near my apartment. I'd go there every other day for lunch, since I could walk there and back easily.

I'm very Americanized so I like pizza lol. There's a nice Polish restaurant in the city near where I live (suburbs), and it has great pierogis - but my go-to is definitely pizza in general.

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u/Busy_Tax_6487 Oct 27 '24

Our Moroccan food is amazing but I have a diverse pallet. So I like Middle Eastern food, Egyptian, Iranian, South East Asian and west and east African food.

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u/conscience_journey Oct 27 '24

What Moroccan food should I try? I am pretty familiar with Levantine food but not Maghrebi. Also I am vegetarian.

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u/Busy_Tax_6487 Oct 27 '24

Pretty much all Moroccan salad appetisers are vegan and easy to make like Zaalouk, Moroccan carrot salad, Moroccan beetroot salad, normal Moroccan salad

List and recipes for the salads

As for dishes most have an vagen counter part. So vegetable couscous or vegetable tagine. There are also the countless of legume dishes like baysarra which is a chickpea or sometimes fava bean soup. You also have l3des or Moroccan lentil soup, it's kinda like Indian lentil curry but also not. Also many pastries or flat breads like msemmen and baghrir with toppings like honey and butter or just cheese how I like it. And of course not to forget Moroccan mint tea.

If you eat animal products or fish you can eat stuff like shakchouka(it's not really Moroccan more tunisian) or batbout with tuna and egg. You can eat Moroccan fish batbout, Moroccan fish fritura(pretty sure Spanish eat this as well) and fish bastilla. And many more dishes, we also eat paella and sardines a lot.

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u/momo88852 Oct 27 '24

Maadasah (lentil with rice) with yogurt. Simple yet delicious and satisfies any hunger.

Falafel with cucumbers and tomato salad, with some Umbah (Indian spices made into sauce smells kinda bad but taste tangy 😬)

Eggs and tomato (shakshoka) I eat this like 3 times a week.

Btw if you like Shawarma, and ever visit Iraq, try our version called Qas. We use lamb and lots of fat. Like huge chunks of pure fat would fill it. So yummy.

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u/Theycallmeahmed_ Oct 27 '24 edited Oct 28 '24

Warak enab (dolma)

Bamya