It is cooked or fried, crunchy or soft and comes in bite, cream or cake form.

Is there a star? No, because the Tunisian pastry savored as opportunities, according to taste. Whether more pistachio than almond, you might want to indulge in a “kaak Ouarka” a “baklawa”, a “tagine”, a “mlebbes” a “guarn ghzal” … there is always a pastry that suits you.

Stars for a beauty lesson

• Kaak Ouarka: a little sweet pastry made of a very thin layer of dough lightened butter, filled with a marzipan flavored wild geranium water and rose water. The change leads to the most beautiful trips with “kaak Ambar”, “kaak warka” “kaak mlabes”, “Kaak braided” and symphony around the pistachios, almond paste …
• Baklawa: a crispy bite composed of sheets of baklawa, almonds and ground hazelnuts, crushed pistachios and whole nuts. Also available as pistachio.
• Tajine: tasty and tender bite made from pistachio paste and decorated on top by a gable.

The rare, occasional …
Tunisian pastry is far from being reduced to the current selection that we know. Who knows “Tarayoun” (very delicate baked meringue pistachio cake), the “Ashura” (traditional cream little known made from durum wheat and roasted nuts, “Souebee kraa” (fried sweet pumpkin jam and sprinkled with pistachios), cake with pine nuts (of incomparable delicacy)

Cakes for every day and every occasion.
Contrary to popular belief, the Tunisian pastry every day is not made of calorie cakes, complicated and expensive. Alongside cakes circumstances and festivals there in the biscuit “Bachkoutou” (flour, oil, butter and orange flower water), “Ghrayba homes” (pea flour chick bite), the “Makroudh “(fried cake made with semolina and date paste), the” el Oudhnine khadhi “the” Ftayer “the” Bouza “the” Belouaza “the” Medmouja “… These cakes daily that accompany breakfast (which does not quench his bachkoutou in latte in the morning!), teas or 4 hours.

Our selection of pastries to succumb to temptation
The Pebbles – Tunis Belvedere, La Marsa and abroad Montreal (Canada): exceptional for the “Andalusian” and “jaouiya” – patisserielesgalets.com

Ms. Hachicha – Menzah 8, Ezzahra, Sousse and abroad Villeurbanne (France): known for its “Mlebess” his “Kaak ourka” and “Houms” pistachio –http://www.patisserie-hachicha.com

Haroun’s Delicious – Mutuelle Ville : for their « Baklawa » – www.delicesharoun.com

Dar El Jeld – Medina of Tunis : for their Â« Achoura », their fruit pastry with mandarines and their « Ghzill El Bnet » – www.dareljeld.tourism.tn

Raja Yahia Djait : for her cake with pine-nuts and her « Fekiya » with all nuts – Phone : (+216) 52 027 365

« Titma » – Marsa El Khalil : known for their « titma » – Phone : (+216) 25 182 188

Amel Djait

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