Moroccan Grilled Pepper Salad

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

Forget about the twelfth century Koutoubia Mosque or the Jemaa el Fna (the medieval city square). The real marvel of Marrakech is its salad. Or more precisely the array of salads—anywhere from a dozen to more than twenty served at the start of a traditional formal Moroccan meal. This one will pique the interest of grill lovers: a flame-roasted pepper salad flavored with cumin, onion, and mint. Normally I would tell you to grill all of the vegetables, but here I like the traditional Moroccan