Dictionary / Food

tanjia

طنجية

/TAN-ji-ya/

English

Marrakech slow-cooked meat pot

French

tanjia

Part of Speech

noun

Register

standard

Gender

feminine

Cultural Note

A Marrakech specialty. Meat seasoned with spices, sealed in a clay pot, and slow-cooked in the ashes of a hammam furnace for hours.

Examples

Ltanjia hiya l akla dyal Marrakech

الطنجية هي الأكلة ديال مراكش

Tanjia is the dish of Marrakech

La tanjia est le plat de Marrakech