Common ingredients for Morocco

These are common ingredients you may see on packaging and menus in Morocco. Local words are left unchanged so they stay readable in the original language; translate this page if you want supporting text and English names in your own language.

• بصل (onion)

  Basla

• بطاطس (potato)

  Batata

• بيض (eggs)

  Bied

• ثوم (garlic)

  Thoum

• جزر (carrot)

  Jazza

• دجاج (chicken)

  Djej

• دنجال (eggplant)

  Dendjal

• زبدة (butter)

  Zebda

• سكنجبير (ginger)

  Skenjbir

• سمن (smen)

  Smen

  Preserved fermented butter

• سميد (semolina)

  Smida

  Used for couscous

• شحم (mutton fat)

  Shehma

• عسل (honey)

  Asal

• قزبور (cilantro)

  Qezbour

• لحم غنم (lamb)

  Lahm ghenmi

• لفت (turnip)

  Left

• لوز (almonds)

  Louz

• لوز (almond)

  Louz

• ماء الزهر (orange blossom water)

  Ma zhar

• مرق الدجاج (chicken broth)

  Marq al-djej

• مرق الدجاج (chicken stock)

  Marq al-djej

• مرق اللحم (beef stock)

  Marq al-lahm

• مرق اللحم (beef broth)

  Marq al-lahm

• مسكة حرة (mastic)

  Meska horra

  Gum arabic/mastic resin

• معدنوس (parsley)

  Maadnous