Golden potato patties arranged beside fries and vegetables.

Maakouda

Morocco · Middle East and North Africa

Short description
This potato patty is crisp outside and soft inside, often tucked into bread or eaten as a snack.
Ingredients
Potatoes, egg, parsley or cilantro, garlic, cumin, paprika, flour, and oil.
Cultural note
It is associated with street stalls and casual sandwiches where a simple potato filling becomes portable.
Common misconception
It is not a hash brown; the potato is mashed before shaping and frying.

image credit

طبق معقودة.jpg

creator:
إيان
license:
CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:
Cropped, resized, and re-encoded from Wikimedia Commons for Gochizu draft review.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.