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Taktouka

A cooked salad of tomatoes and grilled peppers with garlic, spices and coriander, eaten lukewarm or cold.

What it is

The Moroccan television cook Choumicha lists taktouka, which she spells tektouka, among the dishes of Moroccan cuisine under vegetables and salads: tomatoes and grilled green and red peppers are cooked with oil, garlic, chermoula spices and coriander and served lukewarm or cold.

Her version is called tektouka marqa; marqa is the sauce of a dish. Choumicha also spoons taktouka over braised chicken.

How it is cooked

RecipeTaktoukaAfter the Moroccan television cook Choumicha · serves 4RecipeTaktouka with fried peppers, for chicken tagineAfter the Moroccan television cook Choumicha

Where it comes from

At home throughout the country, with no place of origin named by a source.

Goes with it

Food and drinkZaaloukA cooked salad of aubergines and tomatoes, a traditional dish of the cuisine of the Maghreb. It is usually eaten as a starter with bread.Food and drinkMoroccan saladA salad of tomatoes and peppers that belongs to the kemia all year round, the small starters of Moroccan cuisine. Choumicha also calls it chlada.

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Last checked on 30 Oct 2026. 3 sources, 1 of them primary (authority, UNESCO, operator).

  1. Choumicha (Choumicha Chafay), choumicha.ma, Helios Production: Tektouka marqa (gelesen in der Fassung des Internet Archive vom 19.10.2019). https://web.archive.org/web/20191019/https://choumicha.ma/recette/465-tektouka-marqa.html. Checked on 30 Oct 2026.
  2. Choumicha (Choumicha Chafay), choumicha.ma, Helios Production: Tektouka marqa (gelesen in der Fassung des Internet Archive vom 19.10.2019). https://web.archive.org/web/20191019/https://choumicha.ma/recette/465-tektouka-marqa.html. Checked on 30 Oct 2026.
    OMPI (WIPO), Projekt mit dem marokkanischen Amt für gewerbliches Eigentum OMPIC; Verfasser Kamal Rahal Essoulami: Etude exploratoire sur le secteur du tourisme gastronomique au Maroc (2021). https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-development/fr/docs/scoping-study-morocco.pdf. Checked on 30 Oct 2026.
  3. Choumicha (Choumicha Chafay), choumicha.ma, Helios Production: Tajine de poulet à la tektouka (gelesen in der Fassung des Internet Archive vom 21.11.2019). https://web.archive.org/web/20191121/https://choumicha.ma/recette/127-tajine-de-poulet-a-la-tektouka.html. Checked on 30 Oct 2026.