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Briouat
Christine Benlafquih’s almond briouats are Moroccan pastries filled with almond paste and soaked in honey.
About Briouat
Christine Benlafquih’s almond briouats are Moroccan pastries filled with almond paste and soaked in honey. Thin warqa sheets fold around the filling to form small triangles.
The filling combines fried and blanched almonds with sugar, cinnamon, mastic, butter and orange flower water. Egg yolk seals the pastry folds before the briouats are fried until golden.
The hot pastries go directly into honey scented with more orange flower water. An optional sprinkle of sesame seeds finishes their glossy surfaces, while the almond filling remains enclosed inside the folded pastry.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Almond, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Egg.
Optional additions: Sesame.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Briouat
Christine Benlafquih’s Moroccan almond briouats in warqa.
- Raw almondsFilling
- Vegetable oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Granulated sugarSweetener
- Ground cinnamonSeasoning
- SaltSeasoning
- Mastic gum powderAromatic
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- Orange flower waterAromatic
- Prepared warqa pastryBaseIngredient page not linked
- Egg yolksBinder
- Mild honeyFinish
- Sesame seedsTopping · Optional
- WaterLiquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Raw almonds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed. Actual46 whole almonds, blanched then half fried; Almond.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual almond frying47 and pastry frying59; botanical source unspecified.
- Granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Includes actual mastic-crushing sugar97.
- Ground cinnamon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Mastic gum powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual51/97 gum grains crushed, broader mastic mapping.
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual filling and brushing butter52/56; Milk.
- Orange flower water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Prepared warqa pastry: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual55/94 original wheat-based thin pastry, shop-prepared option; full formula unknown.
- Egg yolks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual57 seal; Egg.
- Mild honey: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sesame seeds (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Actual optional63/87.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual almond rinsing/blanching68–69.
Origins & food traditions
Morocco association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Morocco
- MoroccoCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Moroccan Cuisine
- Moroccan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.