Nabila's Spicy Harira

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Harira: Moroccan comfort food

Harira is basically a spicy Moroccan tomato soup with a lot of other things. It's often the first course of a Ramadan ftour (breakfast), after a few dates and juice or milk. For a full pot of Harira, we used a whole kilo of tomatoes.

Ingredients:

1 large onion, whole

1 kg tomatoes

1 sm bunch celery leaves, chopped

1 sm bunch parsley, chopped

1 large cup chick peas

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1 tsp ground plack pepper

1 tsp ginger

½ tsp turmeric

2 liters water

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1 c flour

1 c water

1 140 g. can tomato paste

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1 sm. bag sharia pasta (soak first)

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1 sm bunch cilantro, chopped

1 cube knorr bullion

Combine the onion, tomatoes, celery leaves, parsley, chick peas, olive oil, salt, pepper, ginger, turmeric, and 2 liters of water in a pressure cooker. Bring to a boil and cook under pressure (setting #2, low heat) for ½ hour. Remove from pressure and check if the beans have been cooked. If not, cook another 15 minutes

Remove the pressure cooker and allow the pressure to drop before opening pot.

Remove the whole onion with the boiled tomatoes, and puree in a blender, or with a hand-held blender.

Strain the tomato and onion puree back into the cooked beans, herbs, and spices

blend flour and 1 c. water, and add to thicken the soup

Add the small can of tomato paste, and bring the soup to a boil on the stove for 10 minutes

Add the soaked sharia pasta and stir continually for 10 minutes to avoid having the pasta coagulate at the bottom of the pot.

Add chopped coriander and 1 cub of knorr chicken bullion, cook for 10 minutes more, and serve with bread.

Let me know how you like it. Your comments are welcome.

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