Eid Mubarak!

Here's pictures of some of the food we made during Eid, I will add recipes later. As introduction, these dishes are from Morocco and Middle-East.

Harira

This is maybe the most famous Moroccan soup, there's many different versions of it, this is the one I use. You can also make it without meat when it's suitable for vegetarians aswell.

ingredients:

-200g chicpeas
-(150g chicken breast ot meat)
-1/2 bunch of fresh coriander
-1 bunch of parsley
-100g of celery
-1 onion
-50g of rice
-5-10g of Moroccan sahram
-250g of tomato puree
-6 eggs
-100g of wheat flour
-salt and pepper

serve with:

-lemon
-dry fig

how to make:

1. Put the chicpeas in water over night.
2. Boil the rice 20 minutes in salted water, cut the parsley, coriander, onion and celery.
3. Put some oil in big kettle and make it hot. Add parsley, coriander, onion and celery and fry them few minutes in oil, add chicpeas and chicken (in small pieces).
4. Add sahram, salt, pepper and tomato puree. Add 1,5l of water and boil the soup for 1 hour.
5. Mix the wheat flour with water and add it to soup. Let the kettle be on fire and mix it well. Let it be for 15 minutes.
6. Add the boiled rice without water.
7. Break the eggs on a bowl one by one and add to the soup. Boil 2-3 minutes and then take the kettle off from the fire. Serve with lemon wedges and dry figs.

Enjoy

Bissara

This is very simple but tasty Moroccan soup, suitable for vegetarians also.

Ingredients:

-250g dry beans (small)
-1/2 garlic
-Olive oil
-salt
-cummin
-sweet pepper spice

How to make:

1. Leave the beans on water over night (or at least few hours).
2. Take all the leaves and dirt off from beans, clean them well.
3. Put the beans on a big cattle, add water until the cattle is 3/4 full.
4. Add the garlic (with skin), olive oil and sald and boil 20-30 minutes.
5. Take the garlic off and put it under cold water. Take the skin off.
6. Put the beans, water and garlic on a mixer and make the soup smooth. Check the taste.
7. Serve the soup with cummin, sweet pepper and olive oil