i’m not sure how we avoided it up to now, but we finally had the national snack of tunisia, the brik a l’oeuf…
simple enough ingredients- egg, capers, cheese and fresh herbs wrapped in an incredibly thin pastry and then fried. they’re really delicious and probably the best truly local food i’ve tried. the tricky part is not getting the still runny yolk on your clothes…
they also like to stuff them with tuna. tunisians really love canned tuna. it comes atop just about any salad you order, on top of harissa or on top of pizza. again, they love their tuna.
i actually only had a few bites of the wife’s brik since i had chosen to have a fricassee. i was too busy eating to take a photo, but the fricassee is a small sandwich consisting of a fried bun filled with mashed potatoes, tuna (of course), boiled egg, olives and a healthy serving of a spicy harissa based sauce.
i had been craving one since frenchie and i came across a little shop frying them up near our hotel. we had spotted a couple walking with giant donuts covered in sugar and immediately started looking around for where they could have scored them.
more of an alcove than restaurant this little shop fries up one amazing donut. it actually tastes a lot more like a funnel cake just with granulated sugar instead of powdered. *hello* heaven.
anyway, while we were waiting on our donuts to be made we watched them serve up about a million of those little sandwiches and i had to have one. but, at the time i had to have the donut more.
thankfully i was able to have one in sousse and i’m thinking it would probably be a good idea to hit up the nearby shop one last time before we leave. maybe even tonight…
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