🇹🇳 Tunisia
Slata Mechouia
Slata mechouia carries the taste of the Tunisian grill into every home — everything charred over flame, chopped fine, and crowned with tuna, egg, and olives.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Everything grilled — including the garlic — chopped to a rough paste, spiced with caraway and coriander, and topped with tuna and olives.
Ingredients
- 4 green peppers
- 2 hot green chilies
- 4 tomatoes
- 4 clovesgarlic, unpeeled
- 1 tspground caraway
- ½ tspground coriander
- 5 tbspolive oil
- 1 cantuna in oil
- to tasteblack olives and hard-boiled egg, to top
Method
- 1
Grill the peppers, chilies, tomatoes, and garlic cloves over flame until charred all over.
- 2
Rest covered, then peel and seed everything.
- 3
Chop it all together with a knife into a coarse, juicy paste — never a blender.
- 4
Season with caraway, coriander, salt, and olive oil.
- 5
Spread on a plate and top with tuna, olives, and quartered eggs.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4