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Mimouna

Moroccan Jews welcome bread back after Passover with thin pancakes spread with butter and honey.

At the invitation of Ashkelon Mayor Benny Vaknin, U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro took part in Mimouna celebrations hosted by the Amar and Portal families in Ashkelon. The Ambassador donned holiday clothes, tasted holiday de
Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Mimouna

Mimouna is the North African Jewish celebration held as Passover ends. Doors are left open and neighbours walk from house to house. The table is laid with symbols of luck and plenty, and with the first leavened food in a week. The best known is mofletta, a thin soft pancake cooked in a stack, spread with butter and honey and rolled up. Sweets, dates, nuts and mint tea fill the rest of the table. In Israel it has become a day of picnics.

The dishes

MoflettaThin pancake with butter and honey, the first bread after Passover.Maghrebi mint teaPoured for every visitor through the night.MarzipanAmong the sweets laid out on the Mimouna table.

More dishes made for Mimouna

Seffaالسفة 🇲🇦 Morocco and 1 moreSweetened couscous or noodles with butter, cinnamon, and almonds Main dish
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Mimouna" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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