Feggous Salad with Orange Flower Water

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If you're wondering what feggous is, you're not alone. I'd never encountered it outside of Moroccan cuisine. This exotic-looking vegetable is available in Morocco during summer months. Although its appearance is a bit like a long, skinny zucchini, it tastes like a cucumber and is technically a melon. Amazing!

Outside of Morocco, you might find feggous sold as Aremenian cucumber, snake cucumber, snake melon, yard-long cucumber, fakkous or uri. It's crunchy, mild and doesn't need to be seeded or peeled. Although they can grow quite long, the smaller ones – under 15 inches – are usually best.

_{Photo © Christine Benlafquih}

Moroccans eat feggous sliced, add it to chopped salads, or give it center stage in Feggous Salad with Orange Flower Water. I like Feggous Salad so much that I've made it three times in the last week alone. It's particularly refreshing on a hot summer day, and makes a perfect starter or follow-up to a main meal.