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Chbah Essafra

Algeria · Constantine and Annaba (east)

What we know so far

Chbah essafra means "the beauty of the table", and it is the showpiece of Constantine's and Annaba's Ramadan and wedding tables: lamb cooked in a sweet-and-salty sauce of onion, butter or smen, sugar, cinnamon, saffron and orange-flower water (the same family as lham lahlou), served under a crown of diamond-shaped almond-paste pieces, dipped in egg white and fried twice so they stay firm in the sauce. Annaba's old Turkish-descended families make it with walnuts instead of almonds. It is eaten with bread, and the almond diamonds are what everyone reaches for first.

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Waiting for a cook

Chbah Essafra

Algeria · Constantine and Annaba (east)

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 14 ingredients and 7 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

See every dish waiting