A briouat or briwat ( ar, البروات}) is a sweet or savory puff pastry. It is part of the Moroccan cuisine. Briouats are filled with meat (mostly chicken or lamb) or fish and

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, mixed with

cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

, lemon and

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. They are wrapped in warqa (a paper-thin dough) in a triangular or cylindrical shape. Briouats can also be sweet, filled with almond or peanut paste and fried, then dipped in warm honey flavored with orange blossom water. The briouats are fried or

baked Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods can be baked. Heat is gradually transferre ...

and then sprinkled with

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s, spices and sometimes with powdered sugar.

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Maghrebi cuisine Moroccan cuisine Pastries {{Morocco-cuisine-stub

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