Harira - Red Lentil Soup
Harira - Red Lentil Soup

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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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
  1. Take 1 large onion (chopped)
  2. Make ready 1 large carrot (chopped)
  3. Get 1/3 cup parsley (finely chopped)
  4. Get 1/2 cup cilantro (finely chopped)
  5. Get 6 clove garlic (minced)
  6. Take 2 tbsp ginger (finely minced)
  7. Take 1 tsp turmeric
  8. Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon
  9. Make ready 1 tsp cumin
  10. Get 1 tsp cayenne
  11. Take 2 tsp pimentón dulce (or other smoked sweet paprika)
  12. Get 1/2 tsp pepper (or more to taste)
  13. Prepare 2 tsp salt (or more to taste)
  14. Prepare 28 oz diced tomatoes
  15. Get 1 1/4 cup red lentils (dry)
  16. Take 8 cup vegetable broth
  17. Prepare 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  18. Take side (garnish)
  19. Take 4 limes (cut into small wedges)
  20. Take 1 bunch of cilantro (finely chopped)
  21. Take 6 pita breads (or toasted sliced baguette)

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. This soup is famously associated with Ramadan, but it's also a traditional favorite for breakfast or a light supper. Harira is a zesty, fragrant tomato-based soup with chickpeas and lentils.

Steps to make Harira - Red Lentil Soup:
  1. Heat olive oil in large pot or dutch oven. Sauté onion, carrot, parsley and cilantro until caramelized.
  2. Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in the garlic, ginger and all of the spices. Sauté until fragrant; less than a minute.
  3. 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.
  4. Serve with fresh lime wedges, chopped cilantro and toasted bread of your choice.

Robustly seasoned with ginger, pepper, cinnamon and lots of fresh herbs, it's. This easy Moroccan Red Lentil Soup recipe is similar to classic harirra but with healthy swiss chard. In a effort to clean out my pantry, I decided to use up my remaining red lentils in a Moroccan harira-like concoction with lots of carrots and red chard mixed in. It is a traditional Ramadan Soup. UPDATE - I have now made the soup and love it; I made it with red lentils which worked fine.

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