# The best Libyan dishes

Bazeen, couscous, mbakbaka and Libyan sharba: the dishes of a Maghrebi and Mediterranean cuisine.

- 24 votes · 16 items
- Dec 3, 2019 · Mariam Mansour
- https://even.best/en/l/3317/the-best-libyan-dishes

## Top 16

1. **Bazeen** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Barley dough dome surrounded by meat sauce and eggs.
2. **Couscous** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Maghrebi wheat dish, popular in western Libya.
3. **Mbakbaka** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Pasta cooked in a spicy meat sauce.
4. **Fattat** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Tannour wheat bread with broth, a festive dish of the south.
5. **Mbatan** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Potato slices stuffed with minced meat and fried.
6. **Asida** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Flour porridge with date syrup.
7. **Sharba** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Soup of meat, vegetables, mint and tomato.
8. **Haraime** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fish in a spicy tomato sauce.
9. **Usban** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Traditional Libyan sausage of rice and meat.
10. **Mahshi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Vegetables stuffed with rice and meat.
11. **Gadid** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Salted dried meat used in stews.
12. **Libyan tea** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Strong foamy tea served with peanuts or almonds.
13. **Makroudh** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Pastry filled with date paste.
14. **Shakshouka** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eggs in tomato and pepper sauce, a traditional breakfast.
15. **Butter ka'ak** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Libyan butter cookies.
16. **Lagbi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Palm sap drink.

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