Comments on: Moroccon Cigars and My Warka Making Fiasco

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:05:05 +0000

I love the idea of a Moroccan spring roll! It just goes to show what a small world we live in. I’m definitely going to give this a whirl.

By: Nawal Nasrallah

Nawal Nasrallah — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:28:06 +0000

Hi Sara,
Enjoyed reading about your adventures with the pastry, and a remark on the Moroccan warka etymology. This a one hundred per cent Arabic word. It simply means paper from Arabic waraq. The pastry sheets are meant to be as thin as paper.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:08:14 +0000

thank you aya for the great link, very interesting. I would love to try painting a warka, that sounds incredible to me.

By: aya

aya — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:31 +0000

I recently went to a friends house for ramadan break the breakfast celebration. Her mother used a frying pand on a sauce pan, such as a double boiler. Then she used a paint brush to brush it on. To a lite yellowish color or so. here is a link for recipe.
‘Warka\’ is the crisp, paper-thin pastry from North Africa that is used to make the famous Tunisian \’briks\’ (stuffed parcels) or the classic Moroccan …
http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Warka/15341

By: Shaya

Shaya — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:51:10 +0000

Your cigars look delicious. I admire you for trying to make the warka. I make most everything dough from scratch, I love dough – both working with it and eating it. But making my own warka or phyllo had never crossed my mind until a friend who is Greek told me her sister makes her own phyllo (they call it “pita” as in “spanikopita” or “tyropita”). I can’t wait for her sister to come here for a visit so I can watch her in action.