candidate: Typical Tunisian dishes are brik ( a fried Malsouka dough stuffed with tuna and an egg ) , tajin ( like a frittata or a quiche ) , shorba ( soups ) , slata ( salads ) , marqua ( stews ) , rishta ( pastas ) , samsa ( a popular pastry ) , kifta ( ground meat ) , kaak ( pastries ) , gnawiya ( gombos ) , merguez ( lamb sausage ) and shakshouka ( ratatouille ) .