Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, traditional harira soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna 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.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook traditional harira soup using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Harira Soup:
- Take 300 g lamb, cubed
- Take 150 g green lentils
- Get 150 g chickpeas
- Take 1 onion, chopped finely
- Make ready 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
- Get 1 vermicelli, handful
- Make ready 1 bunch of coriander, chopped finely
- Get 1 bunch parsley, chopped finely
- Take 3 lemons, cut into wedges
- Make ready 3 tablespoons oil
- Prepare 1 tablespoons turmeric
- Prepare 1 saffron threads
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- Take black pepper to taste
- Make ready 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. Harira is the famous soup of Morocco that is traditionally served during Ramadan at sunset to break the daylight fast. While every family has its own recipe with slight variations the traditional Harira is a tomato based soup with lamb, chickpeas, lentils, and pasta, infused with the flavors of lemon, cinnamon, cilantro, parsley, saffron, and. Then this Moroccan chickpea and lentil soup (Harira) is just for you.
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