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Moroccan inspired Egg & Baby Arugula Salad

3/12/2016

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Moroccan inspired Egg and Baby Arugula Salad
Moroccan inspired Egg & Baby Arugula Salad

Heat a pan or flat griddle. Add some olive oil (make sure the pan is not too hot, otherwise olive oil will smoke- not good!) and then break couple of eggs on the griddle. You don’t want to make it quite a nice round omelette per se, since we are going to roll it anyways when we serve. So, a little rough texture will add to it’s character!  Sprinkle some freshly ground sea salt and black pepper to the eggs. Also sprinkle Ras-al-Hanout which is a Moroccan spice mix (available in any Mediterranean food store) and crumble up some feta cheese.

In your serving bowl- lay out baby arugula leaves. Drizzle extra virgin olive oil over the leaves. Crumble up some feta cheese. Sprinkle freshly ground black pepper (to taste) and as well as dried parsley leaves. Finally sprinkle a little Ras-al-Hanout spice mix. You can enjoy this salad by itself or proceed to add our egg assemble for an even heartier meal…

Switch off the heat, roll the egg omelette and serve warm over the bed of baby arugula leaves for a yummy brunch.

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Tomato & Cucumber salad full of Moroccan healing herbs and spices

5/18/2015

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This is a tomato and cucumber salad which has been completely transformed with fresh and healing Moroccan flavors! In addition to all the healing herbs and spices, this salad also contains raw onions and garlic, which are very known to enhance immune function of the body.

Finely chop up half an onion. Add couple of super finely chopped up garlic cloves. Next add chopped up cucumber and tomatoes. Then add finely chopped up half a small dill pickle. Then chop up some cilantro, though we will add it at the very end!


In a salad mixing bowl, add all the chopped up ingredients minus cilantro. Then sprinkle some grated cheese mix. To increase nutrition quotient, I have added Tex-Mex mix which is made up of three cheese varieties (Mozarella, Cheddar and Monteray Jack). In case, you don’t have this, any single variety of cheese such as parmesan will also do. Now that we have all our key salad constituents in place, it is time to add all the healing herbs and spices. 


First sprinkle some cumin powder. Then just a hint of coriander seed powder. Then a pinch or two of sumac. Sumac and dill pickle lend a slight sourness to balance our salad taste. That is the reason we have not specifically added any lemon juice or zest. But in case, you do not have any sumac or prefer to have a more sour-y taste, then feel free to add a little lemon juice and some grated lemon zest. Next fresh grind some black pepper over this mix followed with just a hint of sea salt (to taste). Then sprinkle generous amount of dried parsley. Finally add a little of Ras-al-Hanout. This is a specialty Moroccan spice mix. It lends a little extra oomph to the salad, but in case you don’t have it around, then no worries, you can easily skip it!


Once you drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over this salad, mix it well and serve it in a bowl with fresh cilantro as a garnish as well as a distinct salad component. This is a very Moroccan style of salad-presentation. Also, if you want to increase nutritional content, then substitute all or some of the olive oil with flax seed oil for an extra dash of Omega 3s.


Read about healing health benefits of including tomatoes in your diet.

It looks gorgeous and tastes great. Hope you enjoy it. Do let me know how yours turned out in comments below…
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Tomato and Cucumber salad with Moroccan Herbs and Spices
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Tomato and Cucumber salad with Moroccan Herbs and Spices
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Moroccan Spicy Cheese- Cheddar mixed with Harissa

4/18/2015

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Moroccan Spicy Cheese
This is an awesome cheese to try. If you are like me and absolutely love spicy cheese- but feel trapped into always eating pepper-jack cheese, then this is a great one to try! It is made by mixing Harissa sauce in cheddar cheese.

Harissa sauce, is a spicy sauce used in North African cooking, particularly in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and also Tunisia. It is a favorite condiment found not only in North African kitchens but also in England, France and other European countries. It is of course made with hot peppers (dried chilies) and other spices such as caraway seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, garlic cloves and olive oil. More on how to make Harissa paste, in another post... till then- seek out this spicy cheese at your local grocery store and enjoy- heavenly peppery goodness! :-)



Also check our our baked tomato salad with Moroccan Spicy Cheese.
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