Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, traditional harira soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little 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 is a traditional Moroccan soup of tomato, lentils and chickpeas. Wonderfully fragrant with zesty seasoning, it often ranks high on lists of must-try Moroccan foods.
Traditional Harira Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Traditional Harira Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional harira soup using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Harira Soup:
- Take 300 g lamb, cubed
- Take 150 g green lentils
- Prepare 150 g chickpeas
- Get 1 onion, chopped finely
- Prepare 150 g celery, chopped finely
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato paste, diluted with a little bit of water
- Get 400 g tomato juice
- Make ready 100 g flour
- Make ready 1 vermicelli, handful
- Make ready 1 bunch of coriander, chopped finely
- Get 1 bunch parsley, chopped finely
- Take 3 lemons, cut into wedges
- Get 3 tablespoons oil
- Get 1 tablespoons turmeric
- Get 1 saffron threads
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- Prepare black pepper to taste
- Take salt to taste
It's a chickpea and lentil soup that's made with either beef or lamb. Soups are ideal for fast-breaking during Ramadan. This Moroccan bean soup features lentils and garbanzo beans in an herb-seasoned beef stock. Then this Moroccan chickpea and lentil soup (Harira) is just for you.
Instructions to make Traditional Harira Soup:
- Heat the oil in a deep saucepan and add in the meat, turmeric, saffron, coriander, parsley, onion and celery. Season with salt and stir.
- Add in a cup of water and stir over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Pour 2 liters of boiled water over the meat mixture and add in the lentils and chickpeas. Simmer covered over low heat for about 50 minutes.
- Then add in the tomato juice, tomato paste and cumin and cook for another 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl mix the flour with half a liter of cold water. Whisk well to prevent the formation of lumps and strain.
- Pour the flour and water mixture over the soup and mix slowly to prevent lumps.
- Finally, add in the vermicelli and stir constantly for about 5 to 10 minutes. By then you should have a thick soup.
- To serve, squeeze the lemon over the harira soup.
This Moroccan bean soup features lentils and garbanzo beans in an herb-seasoned beef stock. Then this Moroccan chickpea and lentil soup (Harira) is just for you. This hearty and easy to make soup is perfect for the cold winter days we are having here in the north. It's not your classic winter vegetable soup or tomato soup. Harira is a thick, traditional Moroccan soup that is most typically made with lamb or lamb broth, vegetables, and legumes.
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