Harira

Name: Harira
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 6 bowls
Cuisine: maghrebi
Ingredients: 100 g Lentils; 200 g Chickpeas, cooked; 400 g Tomato; 1 piece Onion; 2 stalk Celery; 200 g Lamb; 1 handful Coriander; 1 handful Parsley; 1 tsp Cumin; 1 tsp Ginger; 1 tbsp Wheat flour; 1.5 l Water

الحريرة

The Ramadan soup — tomato, lentils, chickpeas, herbs, a little meat if the house wants it.

Recipe by I Want Some Food · Reviewed by the editorial kitchen. Native name preserved: الحريرة.

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Prep: 20 min
Cook: 50 min
Total: 1 hr 10 min
Difficulty: Easy
Spice: Mild
Cost: Cheap nightUnder $8 USD · indicative, not a store price

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Source photograph of Harira. Not official I Want Some Food pixel artwork. — Photo: Miansari66 via Openverse. cc0 1.0. Source

About

Harira is Morocco's breaking-fast soup: tomato, lentils, chickpeas, celery, coriander and parsley, thickened a little with flour or broken vermicelli. Lamb is common, not mandatory. It should taste of herbs and tomato, not of a generic chilli stew.

Ingredients

Servings

Lentils100 g
Chickpeas, cooked200 g
Tomato400 g
Onion1
Celery2 stalk
Lamb (optional)200 g
Coriander1 handful
Parsley1 handful
Cumin4.9 ml
Ginger4.9 ml
Wheat flour (optional)15 ml
Water1½ l

Scaling multiplies the written quantities. Baking still prefers a scale.

Steps

Step 1
Fry onion, celery and optional lamb. Add tomato, spices, lentils and water. Simmer 35 minutes.
40 min
Step 2
Chickpeas, herbs, a flour slurry if you want it thicker. Simmer 10 minutes. Lemon at the table.

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Substitutions

Lamb → Skip it
A vegetarian harira is a real pot.

Tips

Broken vermicelli in the last 5 minutes is a Fassi extra.
Smoked paprika is not traditional. Paprika is sometimes there.

History & culture

Ramadan iftars, and also a winter pot. Dates and chebakia on the side when it is a fast.

A Maghrebi soup with Andalusian cousins. The tomato version is after the Americas.

Traditional

Provenance: Editorial adaptation. Original editorial adaptation for I Want Some Food. Not copied from another recipe site. Official recipe photography is pending. Photograph: Miansari66 via Openverse (cc0 1.0). https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24469491