Summary On Berber food

Summary

Berber food is an important part of their lifestyle. Due to their location, the Berber are limited to the supplies and recourses available to them to make the food. They are located in the mountains with there supplies being the crops they grow or trading at a local souk in the area. To flavour the food they make they use a variety of spices in there tagines and other dishes. Some dishes like bastilla are only made on special occasions for there expense and time consumption.

They Berbers use clay ovens to cook the majority of their food, tagine pots are used to place the food over the stove. To light the clay oven they bring twigs and wood and burn them. The Berbers cook their food for a long time to make sure it is cooked thoroughly.

Foods such as bastilla and Couscous are eaten widely on special occasions such as weddings, they are fiddly to make and are normally expensive and time consuming. Berber food plays a big role in a wedding, because without nice food there wouldn’t be a good wedding.

The Berbers have many dishes such as Beef tagine with prunes, Chicken with olives, Ground meat with sauce and egg. Accompanied with these great tasting food is bread and of course the famous Mint tea.

They use many different ingredients to flavour there food, such as : Cumin, salt, paprika, Black pepper, Thyme, Rosemary. They also use olives preserved lemons and Harissa paste widely through there dishes.

The Berbers are a essential part of Berber culture and tradition. Without the Berbers Morocco wouldn’t be what it is today. When the arab conquest came and invaded Morocco they brought there spices and ingredients with them and enhanced and slightly altered the food that the Berbers had already been making.