Food and Drink

Delicious sums it up! Often simple but very good because of the wonderful fresh vegetables and fruit.

A main course may be tajine or cous-cous. The tajine is cooked in a specific dish and is meat – lamb, beef or chicken with vegetables and spices. There are also fish tajines which are very tasty.

Chicken is sometimes cooked with citron and olives, or with almonds; lamb tajines sometimes have prunes or apricots in them - delicious!

Cous-cous can be mounded up with vegetables and meat with maybe chick-peas and raisins to top it.

Please note that these dishes can also be made in a vegetarian version.

The spiciness of the food can vary, but cumin is nearly always used. There is also the very hot and spicy harissa sauce - made from chillis!

There are brochettes – lamb, beef or chicken cooked on skewers over charcoal.

In the desert there is the Berber pizza – meat, onions, egg and spices baked in a double-sided crust.

Harira is a traditional thick soup with beans, vegetables and sometimes meat.

The salads are so fresh! There is a variety - lots of tomatoes and peppers and onions.
Fruit too is excellent and varies depending on the season, so you may have oranges, apples, dates, figs, melons, pomegranates, plums, apricots - and much more. The oranges are so juicy; dates, especially at time of the autumn harvest are succulent and sweet.

There are also goat cheeses depending on area and eggs aplenty.

Fish is excellent, fresh sardines are a specialty. Seafood and shellfish are also available especially on the coast – and very excellent.

Olives are abundant as is good olive oil. There is also the exceptional Argan oil, the tree mostly being found in the mid-west coastal regions. This is a rare tree, only found in Morocco, and one may visit the women's co-operatives where the oil is made.

The flat loaves of bread are freshly baked every day; baguettes are obtainable in the bigger towns and the cities have excellent patisseries.

Mint tea is the drink of Morocco and plenty of it!
Sweet and refreshing and excellent for cooling off, it is offered regularly – every place you go!

There is coffee, soft drinks, juices – freshly squeezed orange juice is lovely, and bottled water.

Alcohol is available in some hotels and supermarkets sell it; there are vineyards and Moroccan wine is good, and beer is brewed, but remember this is an Islamic country and not all approve, and public drunkenness is extremely unusual.

The month of Ramadan is the time that a sunrise to sunset fast is observed. This means not only no eating, but no drinks as well - difficult in the hotter months. It is not obligatory for you to observe this of course, but you may be invited to participate in the breaking of the fast at sunset and this is a delicious meal.

Also, as the Islamic calendar is based on the cycle of the moon, the month moves forward in our calendar time, thus at the moment, Ramadan is now in the autumn months. Please remember that people may be a little more tetchy and not so 'on the ball' so do forgive them - and try to imagine how you would feel if you were undergoing this fast!

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