Foodie Tour in Rabat with Mohammed

This is where we end the tour, after lunch. We have coffee (mint tea for Kay) with the almond cookies purchased earlier, and a view over the river. 

We had three dishes cooked in tagine. Two were sweet: beef with carmelized prunes and couscous with carmelized onions and chickpeas. One was savory: chicken with lemon, herbs, and French fries. 

These are pottery tagine containers. The food inside is cooked on a stove burner.

These are the appetizers: shredded carrots in orange juice and orange blossom water; roasted eggplant with seasonings; charred peppers; and cucumber-tomato salad - with bread.    

The restaurant was definitely popular with tourists. One must ring the doorbell and be invited inside.

In the market, two hoppers of mandarins.

The spice shop. 

Too pretty for words.

Kay definitely passed on the deep fried sardines and mashed potato croquettes. Very popular fast food lunch.

Dates stuffed with walnuts are a popular wedding fare treat.

28 varieties of dates grow in Morocco.

This was a strange kind of treat. Shredded chewy, baked dough topped with honey. The honey tastes very different in Morocco from Turkey and Greece. Not as sweet.    

This was a very sweet and chewy candy-like dough.

These ladies were part of a long line where the almond cookies for our dessert were purchased. They were wonderful. Not too sweet and almost healthy for the amount of almonds in them.

This was our wonderful guide, Mohammed. No one else signed up for the tour through Get Your Guide, so we had him all to ourselves!