Harira
Ben O'DonoghueIngredients:
- 1 cup tinned chickpeas
- 1lt Massel veg stock or chicken stock
- 500g lamb shoulder, untrimmed, cut into 1 cm pieces
- 2 onions, grated
- 2 celery stalks, grated
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra to serve
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 1 generous pinch of saffron threads, soaked in 1 tbsp hot water
- 1.2kg truss tomatoes, grated skin discarded
- ½ cup roughly chopped flat-leaf parsley, including stalks
- 50g (⅓ cup) dried green lentils, rinsed, drained
- ⅓ cup finely chopped coriander leaves
- Extra virgin olive oil
Method:
- Place the lamb, onions, celery, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger and saffron with soaking liquid and grated tomatoes and dried green lentils in a pressure cooker and seal.
- Bring the pressure cooker up to temperature and cook for 20 minute. Then release the pressure and remove the lid.
- Rinse and drain the chickpeas. Add the chickpeas, half the parsley and enough stock to loosen, then bring to the boil.
- Reduce heat to low, and simmer, add parsley to harira and stir to combine. Remove harira from heat and season.
- Divide harira among bowls, scatter over coriander and drizzle with olive oil
- Serve immediately
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