Tagine malsouka

Tagine malsouka (ملسوقة), or malsouqa, is a Tunisian dish composed of sheets of malsouka dough, stuffed with a savory filling.

The Arabic name comes from لصق (lasaqa) meaning "to stick", referring to the cooking process of taking a ball of raw dough and sticking it to the heated pan to create the layered malsouka sheets. The name Malsouka can refers to both the pastry and the dish.

The Tunisian tagine refers to the savory dish itself, unlike the Moroccan version, pastilla, which indicates the utensil into which a stew is prepared and served, akin to the English meat pie. The Tunisian one, filled with eggs, vegetable or meats, is often enjoyed cold as a finger food.