Hello everybody, 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 food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. Harira is a traditional Moroccan soup of tomato, lentils and chickpeas.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional harira soup using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Harira Soup:
- Prepare 300 g lamb, cubed
- Make ready 150 g green lentils
- Make ready 150 g chickpeas
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped finely
- Take 150 g celery, chopped finely
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato paste, diluted with a little bit of water
- Make ready 400 g tomato juice
- Make ready 100 g flour
- Prepare 1 vermicelli, handful
- Prepare 1 bunch of coriander, chopped finely
- Make ready 1 bunch parsley, chopped finely
- Prepare 3 lemons, cut into wedges
- Prepare 3 tablespoons oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoons turmeric
- Get 1 saffron threads
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- Make ready black pepper to taste
- Prepare salt to taste
It's a chickpea and lentil soup that's made with either beef or lamb. Harira soup is a traditional Moroccan soup that is made all year long but traditionally is used to break the fast during Ramadan, every night. Harira has vegetables such as onion, celery and tomatoes and herbs such as cilantro and parsley. It has some mild spices and it is high in protein thanks to the meat, lentils, egg and chickpeas.
Steps 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.
Harira has vegetables such as onion, celery and tomatoes and herbs such as cilantro and parsley. It has some mild spices and it is high in protein thanks to the meat, lentils, egg and chickpeas. 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.
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