Recipe - Harira

1/3 cup Flour
One half cup Chick peas
One half pound Lean lamb or beef minced
2 Large onions, chopped
One fourth teaspoon Saffron
2 tablespoon Paprika
1 Soup bones
1 tablespoon Butter
2 tablespoon Salt
One half teaspoon Pepper
One half cup Dried broad beans
1 One half pound Tomatoes
1 Bunch parsley
1 Bunch fresh coriander
1 tablespoon Butter
1/3 cup Rice
1 Lemon
One half cup Lentils

Soak overnight 1/3 cup flour in 1 cup water; One half cup chick peas in water to
cover Brown in lightly oil deep pan lamb, onions, saffron and paprika
(increase or decrease according to taste). Add 6 cups of water, soup bones,
butter, salt, pepper, pre=soaked chick peas with skins popped off and
discafrded, and the dried broad beans which have been washed and cleaned.
Simmer, covered, for 2 hours or more. 20 mins. before serving, put through
a food mill into the soup pan (or blend with one cup of water) the
tomatoes, parsley, corinader & the flour and water paste. Add 3 cups of
water, and when it returns to boil, add the vermicelli. When the vermicelli
is cooked, add 1 T butter and lemon juice (or serve a wedge of lemon with
each bowl to be squeezed on the soup at the tatle). the soup should be
elvety; so add water or flour thickening if it is not. *Note: Lentils may
be substituted for chick peas; meat can be chicken; yearst may be used in
place of flour and water if that mixture was not made night before; rice
may be substituted for vermicelli. A soup served each night at sundown to
break the Ramadan Fast. This receipe is from COOKING IN MOROCCO by the
American Women's Association of Rabat.

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