Msemen
Morocco · Middle East and North Africa
- Short description
- This square flatbread gets its soft layers from repeated oiling, folding, and griddle cooking.
- Ingredients
- Flour, fine semolina, water, salt, oil, and butter.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with breakfast, tea, and snack counters, especially when served warm with honey or a savory filling.
- Common misconception
- The layers come from folding and oiling the dough, not from a puff-pastry block or heavy yeast rise.
image credit
- creator:
- Madapineapple
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Cropped, resized, stripped, and re-encoded from Wikimedia Commons for Gochizu draft review.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.