🇲🇦 Morocco
Taktouka
Taktouka is the salad Moroccan mothers make while the grill is still hot — charred green peppers folded into sweet tomato, no eggplant in sight.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Roasted, peeled green peppers stewed with tomato, paprika, and cumin into a soft, glossy tangle.
Ingredients
- 4 green peppers, roasted and peeled
- 5 ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped
- 3 clovesgarlic, crushed
- 1 tspsweet paprika
- ½ tspground cumin
- ½ bunchfresh coriander, chopped
- 4 tbspolive oil
Method
- 1
Char the peppers until blackened, steam them in a covered bowl, then peel, seed, and slice into strips.
- 2
Cook the tomatoes with garlic, paprika, cumin, salt, and olive oil until thick.
- 3
Fold in the pepper strips and simmer gently until everything melts together, mashing lightly.
- 4
Finish with coriander and serve warm or cold with khobz.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4