5 recipes that will give you a flavour of Morocco

Exotic, crazy, colourful Marrakesh, so many intriguing cultural experiences but for the cook it’s a brave new world of tagines, cous cous, pastilla, meschoi, briouts, tangia.

At first, the experience is virtually overwhelming. The souks and medina cover an area of about 19km and are not for the faint-hearted.

Acres of stalls selling everything you can imagine and much that you can’t.