Moroccan Harira

8 Servings
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Wonderful soup eaten mainly during Ramadan.

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Moroccan Harira Ingredients

1 large onion	1 tablespoon Paprika
3 cloves garlic	1 tablespoon Turmeric
5 -6 tomatoes	1 small pinch Saffron crushed (if desired)
1 cup meat cubed	1/2 cup garbanzo beans (soaked overnight)
1 bunch parsley	1/4 cup lentils (washed)
1/2 bunch cilantro	1 cup Vermicelli pasta (broken to small pieces)
1 can tomato paste	1/4 cup flour
Olive oil	4 cups water
1 teaspoon Salt	Food processor
1 teaspoon Black Pepper

Instructions for Moroccan Harira

Heat olive oil in large stockpot.
Puree onion and garlic in food processor. Add to pot and sauté.
Add meat and brown until almost cooked.
Puree tomatoes and add along with another dash of olive oil
Either finely chop or puree parsley and cilantro (w/ tomatoes) and add
Add salt, pepper, paprika, turmeric (and saffron if desired- I do)
Add water and can of tomato paste
Bring to a boil and add lentils and beans
Once beans are cooked, add pasta
Let simmer
If too thick, add water. If too thin, add flour/water paste
Adjust spices to desired taste

Main Ingredient: TomatoesCuisine: Moroccan

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The recipe looks fine now -- thanks for the fixup! Copying and pasting from documents should work fine, but as a tip for others, when copying and pasting you do need to change the special fraction characters (e.g., the single-characters for "1/4" and "1/2" into the BigOven-accepted fraction format: "1/4", "1/2", "1 1/2", etc. -- without the quotation marks). Thanks!

admin
on Sep 14 2007 2:10PM

Yet another recipe with words missing! What does "c lentils (washed) small pieces) mean?

mberman
on Sep 14 2007 12:41PM

This is my first time using this site. It seems to not like copying and pasting from a word doc, hence the reason for missing words. A simple heads up that I needed to check the recipe for missing words would have sufficed, the attitude does not! [I posted this recipe.]

caza
on Sep 14 2007 10:44AM

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