Warka

‘Warka’ is the crisp, paper-thin pastry from North Africa that is used to make the famous Tunisian ‘briks’ (stuffed parcels) or the classic Moroccan ‘bisteeya’ (sweet, spiced pigeon pie). Warka is for the obsessed and the mad, yet we have taken much pride (and patience) in making it at Moro from the beginning. If you do manage to persevere and succeed, you deserve to have a feeling of genuine achievement. It is a case of ‘once you get the hang of it it’s easy’, but nevertheless very few peo