Msemmen

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Msemmen

Msemmen (from Arabic سمن, DMG samn  'clarified butter') is a traditional Maghrebian dish that is prepared in a square shape from flour , semolina , cooking oil ( olive oil , sunflower oil or rapeseed oil ), butter , water, yeast and salt in a pan .

It is mentioned in Darren Humphrys' Morocco travel guide as one of the most frequently used foods and described as "thin, oily, flat bread", which is eaten for breakfast, among other things. In a report in the Revue de'l Orient de l'Algérie et des Colonies from 1853, the dish is also described as one of the usual dishes belonging to a "collation à la façon des Arabes" and as a kind of " crêpes frites dans le beurre ”. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea states in a glossary for her book A Street in Marrakech that Msemmen are “fried pancakes; literally, "the buttered ones" ".

The dish can be enjoyed hot or cold, for breakfast or in the afternoon or as dinner, with a sweet or salty topping (olive oil, honey, nougat cream, eggs). In Morocco, the pastries are often consumed during the fasting month of Ramadan and also serve as the basis for various other dishes such as rfissa or mahjoba , an Algerian variant with a spicy filling made from onions, peppers, tomatoes and minced meat. Msemmen is comparable to the Paratha of Indian cuisine , both in terms of production and taste .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon entry (accessed on December 7, 2013)
  2. ↑ recipe
  3. ^ Darren Humphrys: Frommer's Morocco . In: Frommer's Complete Guides . 2nd Edition. tape 762 . Wiley, Hoboken 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-64582-6 (English, 448 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Revue de l'Orient et de L'Algérie et de colonies: bulletin et actes de la Société orientale . Société orientale, 1835, p. 100 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Warnock Fernea: A Street in Marrakech . 2nd Edition. Anchor Books, 1976, ISBN 0-385-12045-1 , pp. 417 (English, 419 p., Limited preview in the Google book search - see also p. 215, where the equation with pancakes is relativized).
  6. ↑ See Camilla Plum: Ælle, bælle meatball: mad for børn og voksne . Gyldendal A / S, 2005, ISBN 87-02-02208-7 , pp. 91 (Danish, 527 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ See La antropología de la alimentación en España: perspectivas actuales . In: Luis Cantarero (Ed.): Manuales / Manuals. Ars alimentaria . 1st edition. tape 213 . Editorial UOC, Barcelona 2012, ISBN 978-84-9788-503-4 , p. 198 (Spanish, 219 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).