Kitchen · salads & mezze
Salads & Mezze
The little plates that arrive before anything else. Cooked, raw, smoked, charred — never an afterthought.
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Questions
On salads & mezze.
- What is zaalouk?
- A cooked Moroccan salad of aubergine, tomato, garlic, cumin, paprika, and olive oil. Served cold with bread, almost always at the start of a meal.
- What is taktouka?
- A slow-cooked tomato-and-pepper salad-mezze — green peppers charred, tomatoes broken down, lemon and paprika to finish. Eaten cold, with bread.
- What goes in mezze?
- Whatever is small and on the table first — olives, two or three salads, bread, sometimes preserved lemon, sometimes a bowl of cumin.
Notes that touch salads & mezze from elsewhere in the kitchen.