Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, harira soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Harira Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Harira Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have harira soup using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Harira Soup:
- Take 1 medium onion (grated)
- Get 2 tomatoes (seedless, peeled and grated)
- Make ready 1 cup celery (chopped)
- Make ready 1 cup parsley and coriander (chopped)
- Get 200 grams meat (cut into small pieces)
- Make ready 1 cup chickpeas (soaked overnight)
- Make ready 1 cup lentils
- Make ready 1 cup dried fava beans (optional)
- Take 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- Make ready 3 tablespoons rice or vermicelli pasta
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ground black pepper (according to preference)
- Take 1 tablespoon ginger (grated)
- Take 1 tablespoon turmeric powder
- Take 1 pinch saffron
- Prepare 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. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. 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.
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
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. 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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