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Harira (Moroccan Stew)

Recipe for Harira, a delicious Moroccan stew of chickpeas, vegetables and even meat, eaten with bread (khobz).
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Course: Main
Cuisine: Moroccan
Keyword: stew
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 6
Calories: 311kcal
Author: Azlin Bloor

Ingredients

  • 250 g lean beef or lamb cut into 1 inch cubes or same amount minced
  • 120 g chickpeas soaked overnight
  • 100 g green lentils no need to soak
  • 1 medium onion chopped small like the meat
  • 2 cloves garlic pounded to a paste
  • 1 Tbsp flour
  • 2 inch ginger pounded to a paste
  • 2 inch cinnamon stick
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • ¼ tsp crushed pepper
  • 1 carrot chopped into 1 inch cubes
  • 2 stalks celery chopped into 1 inch cubes
  • 2 medium sized potatoes - or more/less depending on taste, cubed as above
  • OR 2 handful vermicelli pasta broken into roughly 2.5cm/1" lengths
  • big pinch of saffron threads
  • 400 g canned chopped tomatoes
  • 1 Tbsp tomato puree/sundried tomato paste
  • 1 medium bunch each of flat leaf parsley and coriander chopped
  • 500 ml beef stock plus 1 litre of water or a good stockpot or cube mixed with 1.5 litres water
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 egg lightly beaten
  • 1 tsp harissa
  • ¼ tsp mustard only if using beef or lamb
  • lemon wedges fresh parley, fresh coriander and harissa paste for serving

Instructions

  • Heat a large saucepan on high heat and when hot, add the beef, garlic, ginger, cumin and cinnamon and dry fry quickly.
  • After a minute or so, add the flour, mixing it in thoroughly.
  • When the flour's mixed in completely, add everything else apart from the potatoes, lemon juice, egg, harissa and mustard.
  • Bring everything to the boil and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes.
  • Add the potatoes and cook for another 15 minutes or till potatoes are done.
  • Mix the egg and lemon juice well and pour this into the saucepan, stirring it vigorously to mix it up.
  • You don't want big bits of egg.
  • Stir in the mustard and harissa, cook for a minute and serve with a sprinkling of the herbs and a wedge of lemon and some harissa paste on the side.

Nutrition

Calories: 311kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 57mg | Sodium: 329mg | Potassium: 1024mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 1859IU | Vitamin C: 27mg | Calcium: 84mg | Iron: 5mg
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