RFISSA

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Today I share with you a traditional Moroccan dish called rfissa, a rich and tasty dish often prepared at a birth story to give strength to the new mom. The dish consists of thin sheets of msemens generously drizzled with a sauce with chicken and lentils, all well flavored ... a pure delight

ingredients:
The Msemens:
The recipe here (multiply the quantity by 3)
(Advice to save time, prepare and cut pancakes the day before)
Chicken Sauce:
1 farm chicken cut into pieces
2 onions
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp turmeric
Some saffron
1 tsp smen (clarified butter)
A bouquet of cilantro and parsley
Salt and pepper
Oil
The lenses :
1 small glass lenses
1 small handful of fenugreek
2 chicken broth ladles

preparation:
1 - In a pan, pour a good splash of oil and brown the chicken pieces with the onions cut into thin slices, add smen, spices, cilantro parsley and simmer a few minutes
2 - Cover with water and cook over medium heat regularly monitoring the amount of water (you need enough to cook the lentils and water the msemens)
3 - In a saucepan, place the lentils and fenugreek seeds cover with water, add salt a little and cook until half cooked. remove the cooking water and add 2 ladles of broth and simmer the chicken and cook until evaporation of water (it takes in everything from 20 to 25 minutes cooking)
4 - Before serving, heat the cut msemens either steam or a few seconds in the microwave
5 - In a large dish, place msemens, sprinkle with the broth (do too much or not enough), place the chicken pieces in the middle with onions and finish with lentils.

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Couscous with seven vegetables

Couscous Witt seven vegetables :

Preparing the couscous recipe Couscous with seven Moroccan vegetables:

Cut the beef into pieces. Put them in the couscous pot. Cover with 5 liters of cold water
Add onions chopped, saffron, paprika, salt, pepper.

Bring to a boil and leave to simmer for one hour.

Put the couscous semolina in a bowl and pour over a little warm salt water.
Mix and loosen the grains with a fork.

Put the couscous in the basket of the steamer and place it on the pot
Wash the turnips and cut into quarters. Wash and scrape the carrots and cut into sections. Wash zucchini and cut into slices 3 cm thick. Wash the cabbage and cut into strips. Peel the pumpkin and cut into large cubes. Wash the eggplant and cut into cubes. Wash tomatoes and cut into quarters.
After one hour of cooking the broth, add the turnips, carrots and cabbage. Cook for fifteen minutes then add the pumpkin, potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini and chopped coriander.
Put the couscous in the basket of the couscous.

Cook for 3 quarters of an hour.

When the couscous is cooked, put in a dish. Add the butter cut into pieces.
Make a well in center of semolina and arrange vegetables and meats.
Presenting the broth aside in a bowl.

ingredients

1 kg of couscous semolina
500 grams of beef shank
300 g turnips
300 g of cabbage
300 g of carrots
300 g zucchini
300g potatoes
300 g of pumpkin
300 grams of eggplant
300 g of tomato
2 onions
1 teaspoon paprika
1 small teaspoon of saffron
1 bunch coriander
200 g butter
salt
Pepper
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Saidia

The blue pearl of Morocco, Saidia, is in the process of modernising so that you will soon be able to take advantage of the turquoise Mediterranean, its 14-km beach and splendid surrounding countryside.

Golden strip

A beautiful bay and, above all, 14 km of fine sand… Saidia is a new generation of resort that holds on to its Moroccan charm. Stroll under the mimosa and eucalyptus trees that line the beach, sunbathe freely and, above all, dive into the turquoise water inviting you to relax.

Dream coast road

To take the full measure of the transparency and clearness of the sea as it gently laps the coast, a walk along the coast road is highly recommended. All the families and holidaymakers go there at the end of the day, when the sand takes on a golden colour and everything becomes softer and gentler.

The call of the sea

The completely new pleasure port, which has 850 moorings, is a great place to take a stroll, even if you are not a sailor! There are schools for sailing, diving and water skiing. In the vicinity, there are restaurants, a thermal centre, shops. A whole range of varied activities and services are offered to ensure that you have an unforgettable holiday in an elegant location with modern facilities.

Urban escape

Take advantage of your trip to Saidia to visit Oujda, some sixty kilometres south of the seaside resort. The capital of eastern Morocco has a beautiful medina, whose kasbah, the old citadel, watches over a fourteenth-century Koranic school. Oujda also invites you to explore its beautiful markets. It is a dream setting to listen to Gharnatian music, a melancholic Arabo-Andalusian music.

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The splendour of the Mediterranean

The blue pearl of Morocco, Saidia, is in the process of modernising so that you will soon be able to take advantage of the turquoise Mediterranean, its 14-km beach and splendid surrounding countryside.

Golden strip

A beautiful bay and, above all, 14 km of fine sand… Saidia is a new generation of resort that holds on to its Moroccan charm. Stroll under the mimosa and eucalyptus trees that line the beach, sunbathe freely and, above all, dive into the turquoise water inviting you to relax

To take the full measure of the transparency and clearness of the sea as it gently laps the coast, a walk along the coast road is highly recommended. All the families and holidaymakers go there at the end of the day, when the sand takes on a golden colour and everything becomes softer and gentler.

The call of the sea

he completely new pleasure port, which has 850 moorings, is a great place to take a stroll, even if you are not a sailor! There are schools for sailing, diving and water skiing. In the vicinity, there are restaurants, a thermal centre, shops. A whole range of varied activities and services are offered to ensure that you have an unforgettable holiday in an elegant location with modern facilities.

Urban escape

Take advantage of your trip to Saidia to visit Oujda, some sixty kilometres south of the seaside resort. The capital of eastern Morocco has a beautiful medina, whose kasbah, the old citadel, watches over a fourteenth-century Koranic school. Oujda also invites you to explore its beautiful markets. It is a dream setting to listen to Gharnatian music, a melancholic Arabo-Andalusian music.

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AGADIR

The leading seaside resort in Morocco deserves its title. A 10km-long beach of fine sand and more than 300 days of sunshine a year.

With its miraculous climate, providing a minimum of 300 days of sunshine a year, and its 10km-long beach, Agadir has all you need for a great seaside holidays. Agadir is a member of a private club which is part of the world's most beautiful bays. It contains a marina which can receive several hundred pleasure boats.

Seaside

The developed coastal road allows you to stroll along more of the sea front, a popular place for a walk at any time of day. It offers a complete panorama of the whole bay. Don't miss visiting the port which is constantly buzzing.

The old kasbah

Destroyed by the earthquake of 1960, the kasbah no longer has its crenellated ramparts. Nevertheless, this elevated site has a complete view of the bay, the port and the new town. It is enchanting at sundown, when the light is flecked with gold.

The new medina

Slightly to the south of the city center, this is a place to be discovered with great delight: the new medina was reconstructed from the 1990s onwards by Italian architect Coco Polizzi. Careful urban development, craftsmen and restaurants. It is an original and bold success, where the Moroccan soul still survives. The jewelry souk and the Moorish café are more than worth the detour.

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Tangier the white

The tangier medina has always fascinated artists. Eugène Delacroix, Henri Matisse, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet… the list can be continued. All have fallen for the charm of Petit Socco Square and its cafés, especially the famous Tingis, despite the nefarious reputation acquired during the period when casinos and dance halls abounded. The old Mendoub Palace, built in 1929, situated to the North of the medina, is now a mansion for foreign VIPs. The museum of the old American Legation is in the Southern extremity. Paintings are on display and one room is dedicated to the American writer Paul Bowles. You should leave the medina by Grand Socco Square, a lively spot in the evening, and enter the new town.



You can enjoy a pleasant walk in the Mendoubia Parksituated north of Grand Socco Square. A giant banyan tree and a dragon tree, alleged to be 800 years old, highlight the visit. Take rue de la Liberté, a shopping thoroughfare, to the Place de France which is the heart of the modern town. There you will find the celebrated Grand Café de Paris and the El Minzah Hotel which both were haunts of the famous names of arts and literature of the 19^th and early 20^thcenturies. This spot is still very fashionable. You will have an amazing view of the medina and the port and bay of Tangier from Faro Square with its canons. The mythical Hafa café overlooks the Strait of Gibraltar from the top of the cliff.

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Marrakech

Marrakech (Arabic: مراكش, Berber: ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ), nicknamed the Red City (Arabic: المدينة الحمراء), is a city located in southern Morocco, in the interior, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains .

The nickname of the red city refers to the red color of many of its buildings and homes.

The city was founded in 1071 by Youssef Ibn Tachfine did Sanhaji, head of the Berber empire Almoravids. In the past, Morocco was known in the East under the name of Marrakech (name still current in Iran); Morocco the name itself comes from the deformation of the Portuguese pronunciation of Marrakech Marrocos.

Marrakech has 928,850 inhabitants, according to the census of 2014, spread over an area of ​​230 km2. The population density reaches 350 inhabitants per hectare in the Medina. It is Morocco's fourth largest city after Casablanca, Fez and Tangiers.

The city is divided into two distinct parts: the historical city (ten kilometers speaker) and the new city whose principal districts are called Gueliz and Hivernage, Askar Douar Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, Mouhamid, Daoudiat. Guéliz is now the commercial center. It was founded by the French during the Protectorate. The Hivernage district contains many hotel complexes. In recent years, the town expanded in the periphery, especially to the west with the appearance of new residential neighborhoods like the Targa region and the extension of the Mohammed VI Avenue or north Tamansour

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Visit the Medina of Chefchaouen

            

     Chefchaouen is a charming town of about 40,000 inhabitants, which is about 100kmde Ceuta on the slopes of Tisouka Mountains (2050m) and Megou (1616m) in the Cordillera of the Rif, that rise above the city as two horns, giving its name to the city (Chefchaouen in Berber means "look at the horns"). At about 660m. altitude and with very little car traffic, one breathes a fresh and clear air that invites a few days to discover the beauty of this place and its environment ..

       The Medina of Chefchaouen - Chaouen o o Xauen - is fairly quiet and small. if we enter it by one of its five doors and we get carried away by our senses, we will find ourselves inundated with many new sensations as the smell of freshly baked bread in wood or tajine ready to be eaten.

         The variety of colors of different products shops and bazaars contrast to the dazzling blue-white houses. The mixture of voice and unknown sounds will guide you through the narrow streets that wind inevitably to the meeting point and rest, Plaza Uta el-Hammam

Here in the shade of mulberry trees, you can sunbathe on the terrace of a restaurant or a cafeteria, while observing the comings and goings of passersby and the beauty of the Grand Mosque and the Kasbah facing.

A few steps away is Place de Makhzen with the Parador and the public car park, from where one can take an alley that leads northeast to Bab el-Ansar and the source of Ras al-Maa , one of the most beautiful places of Chefchaouen.

It is then down along the creek lulled by the pleasant sound of water and see how women do laundry and how to still operate the hydraulic mills. This lovely walk takes us to Rif Sebbanin, the neighborhood laundries with Sebbanin Square and its fifteenth century mosque.


Some other ideas for visiting Chefchaouen

- Visit the Kasbah gardens and small museum that houses a small collection of antique weapons and instruments, textiles and some historical photos of the city; there is also an art gallery inside the walls.

- Descend to the modern city on a Monday or Thursday to know the market there where the inhabitants of the traditional dress in the mountains come to offer their products.

- Mount the small mosque Jemaa Bouzafar from Ras al-Maa to see the sunset.


- Directly or ride in the mountains - we recommend that you take a guide - enjoy beautiful nature (more information in the Tour section)

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Meknès

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            In the seventeenth century, the Alawite Sultan Moulay Ismail decided to make Meknes one of the finest and most powerful imperial cities of Morocco. Today, protected by forty kilometers of walls, it has preserved imposing monuments, including numerous mosques which earned him the nickname "city of a hundred minarets". Among them, the Great Mosque, probably founded in the twelfth century, is remarkable for its gates with beautiful sculpted canopies. Its medina and the remains of the royal palace earned Meknes being a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city is still prosperous, benefiting from cultures of the rich plain of Sais (cereals, olive trees and vines).
Gates and palaces
Considered one of the most beautiful gates in the world, Bab Mansour was built in the early eighteenth century. It opens on the Imperial city proper, where a visit to the mausoleum of Sultan remains a curiosity. You can also meditate on the edge of the Agdal pond, an immense rectangular tank.
lively markets and places
Meknes has one of the most popular medinas of Morocco. El-Hedime place exactly between the old town and the Imperial part of the city, houses the covered market and comes alive at dusk: fire-eaters, storytellers, animal trainers and jugglers create an atmosphere quite exotic.
traditional Culture
The regional ethnographic museum in the palace Dar Jamai, revolves smoothly around a superb Andalusian garden. Embroidered over with gold, faience and ancient jewelry give a comprehensive overview of past splendours of the Kingdom.
Roman ruins
At 31 km north of Meknes lies the largest Roman archeological site in Morocco: Volubilis. triumphal arch, capitol, house of Bacchus, everything reflects the splendor of the city and its economic and political weight. Not to mention the moving delicacy of the mosaics. Allow a minimum of two hours to discover this open-air treasure.

To remember

Meknes became an imperial city in the seventeenth century. The reign of Moulay Ismail made Meknes compare the records of those of Versailles.

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