Salad · Grilled Pepper & Tomato
Hmiss (known locally as Chlita)
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The name hmiss comes from an Arabic root meaning 'to roast', referring to the peppers being charred over a flame or grill before they're peeled.
Hmiss is a cooked salad of grilled bell peppers and tomatoes, peeled, chopped, and simmered with garlic and olive oil until jammy, often crushed together in a wooden mortar. In Oran it goes by the local name chlita and is served alongside grilled meats or scooped up with bread.
Why it's made this way: Roasting and stewing down peppers and tomatoes stretched a simple garden harvest into a dish that keeps for days, making it a practical mainstay of home and street tables across western Algeria.
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