Cycle 4 – Item 11

16 (Wed) January 2013

Harira

2.0

by me

at home

-Oksu, Seongdong, Seoul, Republic of Korea-

with W and DJ

Harira is a Moroccan dish.  It’s a soup/stew consisting primarily/typically of lamb + rice + chickpeas + tomatoes, seasoned with various aromatics (e.g., onions, garlic), and herbs (e.g., parsley, cilantro) and spices (e.g., cumin, cinnamon) – pretty much everything a Moroccan soup/stew would be expected to contain.

Here, I got the recipe from the cookbook 1 Stock, 100 Soups (see most recently 4.010 Ribollita).  The heading attributes the dish generally to North Africa.  I substituted pork belly for lamb, even if Moroccans eat little or no pork.  It was okay.

(See also GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)