5 recipes using tomatoes — Couscous tfaya, rechta, bourek — rich Berber and Arab flavours of the Maghreb.
Algerian cuisine is famous for its bold, distinctive flavours. These algerian tomatoes recipes range from quick weeknight dishes ready in under 30 minutes to impressive weekend feasts. Each recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions, and full calorie counts per serving.
Algeria's most important Ramadan soup: a richly spiced lamb and freekeh soup with tomato, chickpeas and fresh coriander — warming, nutritious and deeply aromatic.
Torn sheets of thin traditional bread drenched in a rich lamb and chickpea stew with sweet turnip and deep spicing — Algeria's most important ceremonial dish.
Algeria's most beloved soup — a warming, lemon-bright lamb and cracked wheat broth fragrant with ras el hanout, tomatoes, and cilantro, a Ramadan essential.
An Algerian lamb and torn bread stew from the eastern regions — shredded flatbread steamed and broken into pieces, then drenched in a rich lamb and chickpea stew.
Spiced Algerian pepper, tomato, and egg stew — Algeria's answer to shakshuka, with its own distinctive character.