Caliente (dish)

Caliente or kalinti is a Moroccan street food which consists on savory pie made of chickpea flour and can include oil, eggs, spices, pepper, and cheese. It is typically sold by the slice by food vendors.

Etymology
The name of the dish comes from the Spanish term calentito, meaning hot.

Origin
The recognized origins of this Moroccan street food would go back to Moroccans of Jewish faith in the city of Tangier, others associate it with the large Spanish community at the time.

Similaries
A variation of this Moroccan street food exists in the city of Oujda where it is called “karan”.

A quite similarity exist with Gibraltar too where a dish flavored with paprika, has been described as one of the culinary symbols of Gibraltar by Hélène Jawhara Piñer.