Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, harira soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Moroccan soup has lamb, lentils, chickpeas, noodles, egg and more and is spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cayenne and turmeric. Harira is a classic Moroccan comfort soup made of tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas, fresh herbs, dried spices, and meat, making it a filling and satisfying dish. Although served year-round, it is particularly popular for breaking the fast during Ramadan.
Harira Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Harira Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have harira soup using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Harira Soup:
- Take 1 medium onion (grated)
- Prepare 2 tomatoes (seedless, peeled and grated)
- Get 1 cup celery (chopped)
- Prepare 1 cup parsley and coriander (chopped)
- Make ready 200 grams meat (cut into small pieces)
- Prepare 1 cup chickpeas (soaked overnight)
- Take 1 cup lentils
- Make ready 1 cup dried fava beans (optional)
- Prepare 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- Take 3 tablespoons rice or vermicelli pasta
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Take to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground black pepper (according to preference)
- Take 1 tablespoon ginger (grated)
- Prepare 1 tablespoon turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 pinch saffron
- Take 3 tablespoons ghee or butter, or 3 spoons of olive oil
- Take 3 liters water
It is also part of the Sephardic cuisine of Moroccan Jews, who add avgolemono style. The national soup of Morocco, this harira recipe is a total flavor explosion. It's no wonder it's such a popular soup, it's downright amazing and will WOW your taste buds! Stir in the chopped coriander and serve in bowls with lemon wedges for squeezing over, and the reserved coriander sprinkled over.
Steps to make Harira Soup:
- Soak chickpeas in water overnight. (Keep or remove skin according to preference). - In a cooking pot, add ghee or oil, onions and meat and stir fry for 3 minutes.
- In a cooking pot, add ghee or oil, onions and meat and stir fry for 3 minutes. - Add celery, coriander, parsley, beans, tomatoes, saffron, salt, pepper and dry fava beans (optional). Mix and keep stirring for another 3 mintues
- Add 3 L of water and let it cook until meat and chickpeas are tender enough.
- In a separate bowl, mix flour and water until you get a slightly thick and smooth batter. Leave a side.
- Make sure the meat is cooked through. Add tomato paste to the soup and mix well.
- Gradually add the flour smooth batter to the soup, keep stirring nonstop for 10 minutes. Make sure to mix very well to avoid flour lumps from forming. (Very important step).
- Add rice or vermicelli pasta and let it simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes.
- Serve along with dates and chebakia sweet
Make this Moroccan chickpea and lentil soup (harira) soon. The rich flavors and aromas of this recipe will make you swoon. Turmeric, cumin, paprika and a dash of cinnamon will create a beautiful flavor. This soup is vegan, but you can add meat (lamb) to it to make it even richer. Heat the oil in a large, lidded saucepan over a medium heat.
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