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Matbucha
(Arab: مطبوخة maṭbūkhah) is a cooked dish made from tomatoes and grilled
peppers spiced with garlic and chili. The name of the dish comes from Arabic
and means "[salad] cooked".
The dish is served as an
appetizer, often as part of a meze. Matbucha is famous in the Maghreb and in
Israel, where it is brought by Jewish immigrants from Morocco, Tunisia,
Algeria, and Libya.
It is not known how the
origin of the dish, since tomatoes are brought to Africa through Europe from
America (c) 1492).
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