Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, harira soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Harira is a classic Moroccan comfort soup made with 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, a savory Moroccan soup made with dried legumes — lentil, chickpeas, fava beans — is traditionally cooked with lamb or lamb broth, but this version is vegetarian. To make the soup wholly vegetarian, trade out the beef stock for vegetable stock.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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)
- Take 1 cup parsley and coriander (chopped)
- Take 200 grams meat (cut into small pieces)
- Prepare 1 cup chickpeas (soaked overnight)
- Prepare 1 cup lentils
- Get 1 cup dried fava beans (optional)
- Make ready 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- Take 3 tablespoons rice or vermicelli pasta
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Take to taste Salt
- Get 1 teaspoon ground black pepper (according to preference)
- Get 1 tablespoon ginger (grated)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon turmeric powder
- Take 1 pinch saffron
- Take 3 tablespoons ghee or butter, or 3 spoons of olive oil
- Prepare 3 liters water
Wonderfully fragrant with zesty seasoning, it often ranks high on lists of must-try Moroccan foods. It's a chickpea and lentil soup that's made with either beef or lamb. There are as many versions of harira as there are cooks, but traditionally it's a very simple and fairly light soup (ie, consisting of more broth than substance) because it's generally eaten as a starter to prepare the body for a larger meal to follow. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil.
Instructions 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
There are as many versions of harira as there are cooks, but traditionally it's a very simple and fairly light soup (ie, consisting of more broth than substance) because it's generally eaten as a starter to prepare the body for a larger meal to follow. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Moroccan Chickpea and Lentil Soup (Harira) This Moroccan chickpea and lentil soup (harira) is hearty and delicious. You can adapt it to make it vegan by substituting the chicken broth for vegetable broth. Turmeric, cumin, and paprika are the main spices.
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