Baghrir

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Baghrir is a North African pancake with a distinctive spongy texture riddled with tiny holes—each one a small cavity waiting to capture whatever you dip it into. Made from semolina or flour, these delicate rounds are most at home in honey and butter, though jam works just as well. They appear on breakfast tables year-round but gain special significance during Ramadan, when they become both sustenance and gift.

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Baghrir or beghrir (Arabic:البغرير), also known as ghrayef or mchahda, is a pancake consumed in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. They are small, spongy, and made with semolina or flour; when cooked correctly, they are riddled with tiny holes (which soak up whatever sauce they are served with). The most common way to eat baghrir in Algeria and Morocco is by dipping them in a honey-butter mixture, but they can also be cut into wedges and served with jam. Baghrir is popular for breakfast, as a snack, and for iftar during Ramadan. On the 9th day of Ramadan, the Mozabite people of Algeria exchange baghrir as a form of tradition, which they call m'layin; they are also distributed to the poor.

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