Authentic African dishes cooked in ghee, tallow and butter — seed oil free.
African Recipes
Harira is Morocco's traditional soup — tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas, and fresh herbs in a spiced olive oil base, thickened with flour. Eaten to break the Ramadan fast. Rich, warming, and deeply satisfying.
Mediterranean Recipes
Ras el hanout is Morocco's master spice blend — a complex mixture of 20-30 spices bloomed in olive oil before lamb is added. Slow-roasted until the meat falls from the bone. Fragrant, deeply spiced, unforgettable.
African Recipes
The complete guide to suya spice — the peanut-based West African spice blend called yaji — and how to use it on beef, chicken, and vegetables grilled in groundnut oil. The flavour that defines northern Nigerian cooking.
African Recipes
Chin chin is Nigeria's beloved fried dough snack — small, crunchy pieces of sweetened dough deep-fried in lard until golden. Made for celebrations and gifted at Christmas and Eid. The original uses lard.
African Recipes
Kaab el ghazal — gazelle horns — are Morocco's most elegant biscuit. Almond paste fragrant with orange blossom and cinnamon enclosed in a thin, barely sweet butter pastry, shaped into crescents. Served at celebrations.
African Recipes
African cuisine across all regions was built on ancestral fats — palm oil, shea butter, ghee, coconut oil, tallow. The seed oil version of African food is a 20th century industrial substitution.
MAHA Recipes
Savor Spices covers spice-forward seed oil free recipes — ras el hanout, berbere, suya spice, garam masala and the spice traditions of global cuisines cooked in ancestral fats.
MAHA Recipes
Moroccan chicken with preserved lemon, olives, and ras el hanout cooked in butter and olive oil. Seed oil free. One pan, 45 minutes.
MAHA Recipes
Egusi soup — West African ground melon seed stew with beef, smoked fish, and red palm oil. Seed oil free. Deeply satisfying.
MAHA Recipes
West African suya — the iconic street-food beef skewers with yaji spice blend and peanut paste. Grilled over fire. Seed oil free.
African Recipes
South African braai chicken — peri peri and herb marinated chicken grilled over fire. Cooked in tallow, seed oil free.
African Recipes
Doro Wat — Ethiopia's most celebrated dish. Chicken slow-cooked in spiced niter kibbeh with berbere and hard-boiled eggs. Seed oil free.
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