- Any taste
- Savory13
- Spicy1
- Sweet12
- Sour1
- Smoky3
- Rich3
- Fresh0
- Any ingredient
- Beef1
- Lamb6
- Chicken4
- Seafood1
- Beans & tofu2
- Wheat & flour11
- Corn2
- Vegetables4
- Offal2
- Nuts & seeds4
- Any type
- Main dish12
- Soup & stew2
- Bread & pastry7
- Street food3
- Dessert3
- Snack2
- Drink1
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How to pronounce Ahriche
Ahriche is written تاحريشت where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /aħriʃ/. In plain English letters that is ah-REESH, 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 Ahriche?
Ahriche is a street food of Morocco. Where it comes from: Khénifra (Middle Atlas). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are offal. It tastes smoky.
Where Ahriche comes from
Ahriche is one of 30 signature dishes of Morocco on this map. See all dishes from Meknès-Tafilalet.
- Harcha الحرشة
Harcha is a pan-cooked semolina flatbread that the English source calls native to the Middle Atlas of Morocco; it is also made in Algeria.
- Medfouna المدفونة
Medfouna, "buried", also called the Berber pizza or desert pizza, is a rustic Moroccan dish of round dough stuffed with a filling and baked until soft inside and crisp outside.
- Tagine طاجين
A tagine is both the dish and the pot: a shallow clay base with a tall conical lid that sends steam back down, so meat and vegetables braise slowly in very little water, which suits a dry country.
- Couscous كسكس
Couscous is tiny granules of durum wheat semolina, rolled by hand with water and steamed, usually twice, over a simmering stew in a two-part pot called a couscoussier.
- Pastilla بسطيلة
Pastilla, or bastilla, is a pie of very thin warqa pastry, filled with pigeon or chicken stewed with onion, saffron, ginger and cinnamon, a layer of eggs scrambled in the sauce, and fried almonds with sugar.
- Harira حريرة
Harira is the soup that breaks the fast during Ramadan in Morocco.
Dishes like Ahriche in other countries
Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Ahriche:
- Kokoreç
Kokoreç is lamb intestines wrapped tightly around seasoned offal, such as sweetbreads, hearts and lungs, roasted on a long horizontal spit over charcoal, then chopped on a griddle with tomatoes, peppers, oregano and chilli flakes, and served in half a loaf of bread.
- Kebda iskandarani كبدة إسكندراني
Kebda iskandarani, Alexandrian liver, is a way of cooking beef or buffalo liver that Egyptian cooking credits to the port city of Alexandria.
- Jerusalem mixed grill מעורב ירושלמי
Me'orav Yerushalmi, "Jerusalem mix", is chicken hearts, livers and spleen, often with bits of breast meat, fried quickly on a hot griddle with onions and spices such as cumin, turmeric and black pepper.
- Pani câ meusa pani câ mèusa
Pani câ meusa is Palermo's spleen sandwich: slices of veal spleen and lung, boiled and then fried in lard, piled into a soft sesame bun called a vastedda.