The moroccan cookery prepares vegetable and fruit, spoiled by the sun, delicious fish and savoury meal with refinement and with fragrant spices...wihich is for a lot of people the best oriental cookery, certainly it will also be for your tastes. 

Invited to eat with a family

If you are invited to dine with the family, first  clean your hands symbolic at the water can. The supper begin, after the head of the family has spoken the "bismillah", a praise to thank god. Eat with the right hand, taste a bit of all. But don't think you have to finish all, that is not possible generally!

Here are the moroccan main dishes. It is imperative to taste them:

 Brochettes (kebab)

Brochetettes are freshly prepared kebabs (beef or mutton). You can buy it at the entrees of the Souks, on a place or directly  on the streets . It is a delicious and cheap little snack.

Kefta

Mince, grilled with special spices

Omelette

In a lot of variations like: cheese, Kefta, onions, tomatoes etc.

Couscous

Couscous is eaten traditionally on Friday in the families; today you can order it every day in the restaurants. You can taste very different Couscous during your journey. The taste depends on the region and the creativity of the cooker. Try not to use your fork or spoon and to eat it on the moroccan manner with your fingers....difficult and sometimes a little bit hot.  :-)  To the Couscous you drink "Leben" - a drink like butter-milk.

Méchoui

The meat (beef or mutton), grilled, is very delicious.

Pastilla

It's a pie of puff-paste, filled with pigeons and almonds. This one is the moroccan kind of the popular sweet-salted dish. There are also variations with fish, chicken and- as a dessert- with milk.

Tajine

It's the name for the dish and at same time for the pot( saucepan). It is the national dish of Morocco. Vegetable is cooked at the same time with meat or fish in this special saucepan. Of this sort of stew exists more than 200 variations...

Ramadan-Dishes

At sun-set the Lent is finished for this day(f'tour) and it is allowed to eat- for "breakfast", the first meal after sun-set, the Harira, a delicous and nutritious soup baesed on meal with lentils and chick-peas. Dates, cooked eggs, bread and Schbackia (delicious but very sweet!)
The Beghrir are little pancakes made of flour, water, which are served with honey and melted butter.
Rghaif: bread baken by every family during the Ramadan.
Slilu: Almonds and peanuts crushed, roasted with melted butter, mixed with argan oil and suggar.

Mint-Tea

"The moroccan whiskey". The national drink is composed of green chinese tea (Gunpowder) and fresh mint (nana). It pers up, reheats and stregthens.

Desserts

Cakes

Honeycakes, Feqqas with almonds, raisin, Ghoriba with almonds and sesam........irresistible!

Kaab el Ghzal

a pastry, formed as the half of the moon, stuffed with a paste of almonds.

M'hanncha

A paste of almonds, parfumed with orange-blooms and rosewater is wraped up in fine sheets of paste. This paste is wounded to a spirale, baken and strewed with fine suggar and cinnamon.

Sweet  B'stilla

Crispy baked sheets of paste are layed in  change with a mixture of cruhed almonds, suggar, cinnamon and a paste of almonds.

Sweet Couscous

The sweet variation of Couscous: strewed with fine suggar and cinnamon, decorated with raisin, dates or plums. It is hot served with cold butter milk or almond milk.