Category:Algerian Appetizers

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A regular Algerian appetizer is usually served before lunch, and may consist of a salad prepared with green beans, peanut oil, garlic, ground cumin, paprika, ground cloves and shivered almonds.

Some of the most delicious appetizers in Algerian cuisine are:


 * brochettes: (kebabs in spicy sauce), a consistent appetizer.


 * beef-stuffed phyllo: pastries prepared with marinated olives with olive oil, parsley, garlic, pepper flakes and citrus zest, and eggs with peppers and tomatoes.

Several soups will be offered as appetizers or as a replacement for the first course in a thee-course meal:


 * meatballs in garlic broth soup


 * dried mushrooms and wild rice soup

The usual condiments added to an appetizer soup are:


 * fvervain
 * za’atar
 * majordomo
 * fresh coriander