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Spice Blends & Condiments

Moroccan Canon

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Chermoula is North Africa's most versatile marinade and sauce — a vibrant green-red paste of fresh c…

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia

Ras el hanout — 'top of the shop' — is the Moroccan spice market's most complex and prestigious blen…

Morocco (Fès and Marrakec

Moroccan preserved lemon and charmoula

Preserved lemons are Morocco's most distinctive ingredient — whole lemons packed in salt and their o…

Preserved Lemon: Fermented Citrus (North Africa)

Lemons — Meyer preferred for their sweeter rind and thinner pith; Eureka or Lisbon for a sharper res…

Preserved lemons — hamad

Preserved Lemon: Fermented Citrus Technique

Lemons packed in salt (and sometimes additional lemon juice) and left to ferment at room temperature…

Preserved lemons belong t

Chermoula and Green Herb Paste Construction

A paste of fresh herbs (coriander, parsley, or both), spices (cumin, coriander, paprika), garlic, le…

Chermoula is the herb-spi

Chermoula: The Marinade and Sauce of Morocco

A paste or sauce made from fresh cilantro, parsley, garlic, preserved lemon, cumin, paprika, saffron…

Chermoula is the foundati

Ras el Hanout: The Spice Blend as Technique

A complex Moroccan spice blend used as a dry rub for lamb and chicken, a seasoning for couscous, and…

Ras el hanout — literally

رأس الحانوت Ras el Hanout: The Spice Merchant's Blend

The ras el hanout tradition — its composition and its philosophical principle.

Ras el hanout (رأس الحانو

Chermoula (North African — Herb Marinade and Sauce)

Chermoula is North Africa's great multi-purpose seasoning sauce — simultaneously a marinade, a basti…

North African in origin,

Preserved Lemon

Preserved lemons are one of the great pantry transformations — whole or quartered lemons packed in s…

Morocco and North Africa

Ras el Hanout translates from Arabic as 'head of the shop' — the spice merchant's best blend, his fi…

Morocco — ancient Maghreb