How to pronounce Zirawi

Zirawi is written الزيراوي where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /zirawi/. In plain English letters that is zee-RAH-wee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Zirawi?

Zirawi is a dessert of Algeria. Where it comes from: Aurès. People usually eat it at teatime. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Zirawi comes from

Zirawi is one of 29 signature dishes of Algeria on this map.

• Chakhchoukha شخشوخة · Main dish · The Aurès (Batna)

  Chakhchoukha is a dish of thin flatbread, rougag, torn into small pieces and soaked in a stew of lamb, chickpeas, tomato, onion and spices such as cumin and paprika.

• Garantita كرانتيكا · Street food · Oran

  Garantita, also called calentica, is a thin, soft baked custard of chickpea flour, water, oil and eggs, cut into squares and sold hot from large trays.

• Rechta رشتة · Noodles & pasta · Algiers

  Rechta is a dish of very thin homemade noodles, steamed rather than boiled, served with a white sauce of chicken, chickpeas, turnips and courgettes, flavoured with cinnamon.

• Tajine zitoun طاجين الزيتون · Main dish · Algiers

  Tajine zitoun, "olive tajine", is a traditional Algerian stew from the city of Algiers.

• Mtewem المثوم · Main dish · Algiers

  Mtewem, or tajine mtewem, is a traditional Algerian dish, and more precisely a dish of Algiers.

• Sfiria السفيرية · Main dish · Algiers

  Sfiria is a traditional Algerian dish that the Arabic and French sources both say comes from the city of Algiers.

Food of Algeria

Dishes like Zirawi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Zirawi:

• Makroudh المقروض · Dessert · Kairouan, Tunisia

  Makroudh, also makrout, is a semolina pastry filled with date paste and shaped into diamonds, which is where its name comes from.

• Chebakia الشباكية · Dessert · All Morocco, Morocco

  Chebakia, also called mkharqa in Morocco and griwech in Algeria, is a pastry of dough flavoured with aniseed, cinnamon and saffron, mixed with ground sesame and flour, cut into strips and rolled or twisted to look like a rose.

• Peynir helvası · Dessert · Çanakkale, Türkiye

  Peynir helvası is a sweet made from soft unsalted cheese, flour or semolina, butter and sugar, cooked slowly and then baked until golden on top.

• Kahk كحك · Dessert · Egypt

  Kahk, or kahk el-eid, is a sweet shortbread biscuit covered in powdered sugar that Egyptians make above all for Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, and also for Christmas and Easter.