Moroccan food, season by season
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What to Eat in Morocco in Spring
Spring is Morocco at its greenest and mildest — tender peas and broad beans, artichokes and green almonds, wild mallow, strawberries, and the perfect weather for eating outdoors.
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What to Eat in Morocco in Autumn
Autumn brings the harvest to the table — new olive oil, fresh dates, pomegranates and quinces — as the heat breaks and Morocco's cooking turns warm and hearty again.
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Summer Cooling Drinks in Morocco
When the heat peaks, Morocco drinks its way cool — fresh orange and mixed-fruit juices, avocado and almond shakes, orange-blossom water, buttermilk and, yes, hot mint tea.
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The Best Foods for Hot Marrakech Summers
Marrakech in July is fierce, and eating well means eating clever — light salads and cold soups, coastal fish trips, fruit and cooling drinks, and timing meals to the cooler hours.
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Spring Picnics and Outdoor Eating in Morocco
Spring is picnic season in Morocco — mild days and green countryside draw families out to grill skewers among the wildflowers, spreading salads, bread, olives and mint tea.
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Spring Produce in Morocco
Spring is Morocco's tender season — new peas and broad beans, artichokes and green almonds, the first strawberries and a burst of wild herbs after the winter rains.
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Autumn Harvest Foods in Morocco
Autumn is Morocco's great gathering-in — dates from the oases, olives pressed for oil, pomegranates and quinces, and the first cool-weather cooking after the summer heat.
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Citrus Season in Morocco
Morocco is a citrus giant, and winter is its season — sweet oranges and clementines, the famous Nadorcott and Berkane mandarins, bitter Seville oranges and fragrant lemons.
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Olive Harvest Season in Morocco
From late autumn the olive trees are beaten and pressed across Morocco — table olives cured in a dozen ways, and the green, peppery new oil that dresses every Moroccan table.
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Date Harvest Season in Morocco
In the southern oases, autumn brings the date harvest — Majhoul, Boufeggous, Jihel and more, from the palm groves of the Draa, Tafilalet and Erfoud, the sweetest fruit of the year.
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Almond Blossom and Harvest Season in Morocco
Almonds bookend the Moroccan year — pink-white blossom carpeting the valleys in late winter, then the late-summer harvest that feeds pastries, amlou, sellou and countless sweets.
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Figs and Summer Fruit in Morocco
High summer is Morocco's fruit paradise — sun-warm figs, melons and watermelon, grapes, peaches and apricots, and the prickly pears sold peeled from carts on every corner.
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Pomegranate Season in Morocco
As summer turns to autumn the pomegranates ripen — ruby seeds eaten by the bowl, pressed into tart-sweet juice, scattered over salads, and cooked into the flavours of the season.
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Winter Oranges and the Vitamin Season
Just as the cold and colds arrive, Morocco's oranges ripen — sweet, cheap and everywhere, squeezed fresh on every square and eaten by the kilo through the vitamin season.
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The Saffron Harvest at Taliouine
In autumn the fields around Taliouine bloom purple, and by hand the world's most precious spice is picked — Morocco's saffron capital and the golden threads that flavour its finest dishes.
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Argan Season and Amlou
The argan tree of the Souss gives Morocco two treasures — the nutty golden oil pressed from its kernels, and amlou, the rich almond, argan and honey spread of the south.
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Seasonal Vegetables in Moroccan Tagines
The tagine is a seasonal canvas — spring peas and artichokes, summer courgettes and tomatoes, autumn pumpkin and quince, winter roots and cardoons all take their turn in the pot.
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Moroccan Comfort Food for Cold Nights
When the Atlas turns cold, Morocco reaches for its warmest dishes — rfissa and harira, buttery couscous, sweet-savoury tagines and the fortifying breads and porridges of winter.
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What to Cook in Ramadan at Home
Cooking through Ramadan means planning around two meals and a month of guests — a practical guide to preparing harira, chebakia, breads and make-ahead dishes for the fast.
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Seasonal Eating in Morocco Year-Round
A month-by-month overview of the Moroccan food year — winter citrus, spring greens, summer fruit and autumn harvests — and how to eat with the seasons wherever you travel.
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Moroccan Summer Salads and Light Meals
In the heat, Morocco eats a table of cooked and raw salads — smoky zaalouk, pepper taktouka, tomato and cucumber, roasted pepper — scooped with bread as light, cooling meals.
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Warming Spices for Moroccan Winter
Ginger, cinnamon, pepper and the great ras el hanout blend give Moroccan winter cooking its heat and depth — a guide to the spices that warm the cold-weather table.
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Festive Moroccan Desserts by Season
Morocco marks its celebrations with sweets — Ramadan chebakia, Eid pastries, wedding pastry towers and the seasonal fruit desserts that shift with the calendar through the year.
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Making Preserved Lemons: The Winter Citrus Season
Winter is when Moroccan kitchens put up their preserved lemons — whole citrus packed in salt and their own juice, left to cure for weeks until they become the soft, intensely flavoured ingredient that defines a dozen classic dishes.
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