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THE HARIRA
The Harira is the national soup.
During 30 days of Ramadan, every house prepares this perfumed soup, imprenating the streets of its scent at the sundown
It is eaten along with dates, or honey sweeties(Chabakkia, briouats with almonds and honey).
There are many varieties of this soup, but the classical one is the following :
Ingredients for 12 people
It should be prepared in two times :
1_Bouillon(Bubbling)
2_Tédouira.
The bubbling(tka_tàa)is about1 & half hour of cooking.
250 g of beef or muton meat cut into little pieces
4 or 5 little fleshy bones
500 g of whole litthe onions.
A half coffee spoonful of safran(half natural and half artificial)
1 coffee spoonful of pepper
1 butter walnut
250 g of lentil
salt
1 & half litter of water for the bubbling
 Preparation
Cook the lentil in salted water, darin the juice of 1 citron .Put it apart. Cook the other ingredients in an under cover saucepan on a little fire, after boiling, remove the onions when they are cooked to keep them complete.
1 hour past, verify that meat is cooked then remove it fron fire, put the lentil and the onions in the same container.
2_Tédouira : 1 hour cooking
1 bouquet of coriander
1 bouquet of parsley
1 kg and a half of moulded tomatoes or 1 box of concentrated and mixed tomatoes in 1 litre and a half of water
2 litres and a half of water
1 ¾ filled cup tea of lemon juice
1 butterwalnut
200 g of flour
salt
Preparation
Boil water with the moulded or concentrated tomatoes,add butter, then boil for quarter an hour, add the bubbling juice over the meat, lentil , onions,ect…in the saucepan.
Out of fire, pour the mixed flour in 1 litre of water, while shaking it fast to avoid having clots .Put it back on fire, then shake the mixture till boiling.
Add the parsley and corrainder cut to little pieces or crushed with mortar with the necessary quantity of salt for condiment.
Dilute with1 liter of water, and pour into the marmite, keep shaking(We can also crush them in a mixer full of water).Verify the condiment and remove it from fire when the soup is very hot.
The harira should be velvety ,not thick.
N.B We can replace meat by the fellings of chiken
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