Fricassees

Ingredients (for 20 fricassees)
For the dough, you will need:
- 500g flour
- 1 tablespoon of oil
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon of yeast
- salt
- warm water

For the stuffing, you will need:
- a potato boiled or steamed and then mashed
- 140g of canned tuna
- 50g of pitted black olives
- 2 boiled eggs
- 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise (optional)
- harissa diluted in water (optional)
- salt and pepper
- oil for frying

Preparation:

For the dough, start by diluting the yeast in some warm water. Then put the flour in a container, form a well and add salt, egg, oil and yeast. Mix everything slowly while adding some warm water. Knead well until you get soft and pliable dough.

Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for 30 minutes. Make small balls of dough, the stretch them slightly on both tips and flatten them into an oblong shape. Arrange them on a plate dusted with flour and let them rise another 30 minutes. Finally, fry fricassees in a hot oil bath, brown them well and then place them on absorbent paper.

For the stuffing:
In a container, mix the mashed potatoes, tuna, hard-boiled eggs (crumbled), olives (broken into pieces), salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

Cut open the fricassee on one side, put some harissa if you prefer it spicy and then stuff it with the mixture.

Your appetizing fricassees are ready to be served!

Zlébia

Ingredients:
-1 cup of flour
-2 teaspoons of corn starch
-1/2 teaspoon of cardamom
-1 teaspoon of yeast
-1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
-1 teaspoon of yogurt
- about 3 or 4 cups of water
- honey (as much as desired)

Mix all the ingredients but the honey together and whip them with the mixer. If you don’t have a mixer, just give this hardest part to someone close by who would like to build their muscles.

Whip the ingredients till you get a nice paste, and then put it aside to sit in a warm place.

In a deep pan start heating the oil to fry the Zlébia.

Once the oil is hot, use a funnel to start pouring the paste into the pan in a spiral shape. Let it fry from both sides until it turns golden and crunchy.

When they are finished let them cool in another bowl.

Heat the honey till it is a liquid consistency, then dip the pastry into it.

Bon appétit!
Source: Tunisia-live.net

Chorba Soup

The basic ingredients that you will need for Chorba are:

- one onion

- one carrot, peeled, and finely chopped

- 500g of chicken or lamb cut into small pieces

- 4 tablespoons of barley

- 1/4 bunch of parsley

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 1 Tablespoon of olive oil

- 1 1/2 tablespoon of tomato paste

- 2 teaspoons of salt

- 2 teaspoons of paprika

- 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper

- 1 teaspoon of turmeric

- 1 teaspoon of ground caraway seeds

- 1/2 lemon for squeezing

If you want, you can also add some harissa, or even a beaten egg, depending on your personal taste.

Method:
Preparing the Chorba is quite easy and takes about 45 minutes.
First of all, you put some oil in a large pot then add, one by one, the chopped onion, meat, tomato paste and spices.
Sauté over medium heat for 2 minutes, and then add two liters of hot water.
Put a lid on the pot and cook from the boil for 45 minutes.
After 15 minutes, add the barley.
Then after 10 more minutes, add the carrot.
Five minutes before the end of the cooking, add the crushed garlic and chopped parsley.
When your Chorba is ready, add few drops of lemon and savor it while it is warm.

Source: tunisia-live.net