Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, harira - red lentil soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Beautifully spiced Moroccan lentil soup with red lentils and chickpeas. Super healthy, low-fat, high-protein, easily made vegan. This Moroccan Lentil Soup is hearty, healthy and delicious ~ tender red lentils and chickpeas flavored with warm, fragrant Moroccan spices.
Harira - Red Lentil Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Harira - Red Lentil Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have harira - red lentil soup using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Harira - Red Lentil Soup:
- Get 1 large onion (chopped)
- Prepare 1 large carrot (chopped)
- Get 1/3 cup parsley (finely chopped)
- Take 1/2 cup cilantro (finely chopped)
- Get 6 clove garlic (minced)
- Take 2 tbsp ginger (finely minced)
- Get 1 tsp turmeric
- Take 1 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin
- Take 1 tsp cayenne
- Get 2 tsp pimentón dulce (or other smoked sweet paprika)
- Take 1/2 tsp pepper (or more to taste)
- Prepare 2 tsp salt (or more to taste)
- Get 28 oz diced tomatoes
- Take 1 1/4 cup red lentils (dry)
- Prepare 8 cup vegetable broth
- Prepare 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Take side (garnish)
- Get 4 limes (cut into small wedges)
- Get 1 bunch of cilantro (finely chopped)
- Get 6 pita breads (or toasted sliced baguette)
Harira is a classic Moroccan comfort soup made of tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas, fresh herbs, dried spices, and meat, making it a filling and satisfying dish. Red lentils are perfect for weeknights, or whenever you're in a hurry to get a meal on the table. Due to how they're processed, de-husked, and split before packaging, they cook up quicker than any other variety of legumes, although they are slightly lower in fiber than the larger whole. Moroccan lentil soup (aka Harira) is a nutritious low carb soup, stuffed with legumes and veggies!
Instructions to make Harira - Red Lentil Soup:
- Heat olive oil in large pot or dutch oven. Sauté onion, carrot, parsley and cilantro until caramelized.
- Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in the garlic, ginger and all of the spices. Sauté until fragrant; less than a minute.
- Add lentils, tomatoes, and broth. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 50 minutes, or until the lentils have cooked thoroughly and soup has thickened. Salt to taste.
- Serve with fresh lime wedges, chopped cilantro and toasted bread of your choice.
The soup is enriched with healthy and taste giving You will need legumes, red lentils and chickpeas (garbanzo beans), for this soup. I use only dried lentils and chickpeas, not the canned stuff and I. The national soup of Morocco, this Harira recipe is a total flavor explosion. Harira to Morocco is like Boeuf Bourgignon to France in that it's as much a household name as anything. Every child and adult in Morocco is familiar with harira and it's served in practically every home throughout the country.
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