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Bocadillo Marocain de Tanger
Created by Chef Zohra
The northern street sandwich: crisp bread opened wide, harissa rubbed into the crumb, tuna or kefta, egg, olives, and hot fries pushed right in so supper can travel in one hand.
This is the sandwich you eat leaning over paper, with the sea air in your face and one hand under the bread because the fries will try to escape. In Tangier, a bocadillo isn't pretending to be a little meal. It is the meal: bread, heat, salt, egg, olive, potato, and something good from a tin or a grill.
Open the baguette like a pocket, not into two flat halves. That matters. The crumb catches the harissa and tuna oil, then holds the egg and olives in place while the fries go in last, still hot and crisp at the edges. If you use kefta instead of tuna, press it in while the meat is warm and juicy, then close the bread around it like you're making room for one more guest.
This is la cuisine du lien, the cooking of connection, but on the sidewalk. No silver platter, no ceremony, no apology. Just a northern Moroccan answer to hunger when the day has run long and the table is wherever you can stand together.
Ingredients
small baguettes or long sandwich rolls
Quantity
4
potatoes
Quantity
3 medium
peeled and cut into fries
vegetable oil
Quantity
as needed
for frying
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| small baguettes or long sandwich rolls | 4 |
| potatoespeeled and cut into fries | 3 medium |
| vegetable oilfor frying | as needed |
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