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Published: Aug 23, 2016 · Modified: Nov 3, 2020 by Karly · This post may contain affiliate links

Easy Moroccan Harira

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This post is sponsored by Cost Plus World Market! All recipes and opinions are my own, so enjoy, and thank you for supporting the sponsors who support A Simple Pantry!
This easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.comThis is such an easy Moroccan Harira that it should probably be illegal.

Just kidding. Not about the easy part, cause that’s just awesome.

This easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.comThere is just so much flavor going on with Moroccan food, and if it were possible for my eyes to be like the heart-eye emoji, they would totally do that all the time for this recipe. It’s an international food delight!

This easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.comThis easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.comI really wanted to focus on bringing those international flavors to the table in the simplest way, so that anyone can enjoy such a meal on a weekly basis.

How gorgeous is this big belly baker? I mean, look at that reactive glaze. BEAUTIFUL.

I tried to make this dish as authentic as possible while maintaining ease of preparation, and I can honestly say that I am obsessed with this harira.

A few things you need…

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This easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.com|| Extra Virgin Olive Oil
|| French Lentils
|| Cinnamon Sticks
|| Saffron
|| Raz El Hanout
|| Basmati Rice

These are essential items. You’ll also need some ground lamb, chickpeas, and a few produce items. OH. And if you have a halal market, you might be able to find some labneh, which is like the best ever and totally important to this dish. If not, use cream cheese and die happy, cause yum.

Check out Katie Workman’s Moroccan Chicken Recipe so you can be even further inspired to go international this week!

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Now, how about we make that easy Moroccan Harira? Yasssssssssssssssss

This easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.com

This easy Moroccan Harira is weeknight ready with its simple ingredients and one pot cooking. Go international and enjoy dinner tonight! | asimplepantry.com

Easy Moroccan Harira

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Course: Soup
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 6
Author: Karly Gomez

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 lb Ground Lamb
  • 1 Red Onion finely diced
  • 2 Tbsp Cilantro minced
  • 3 Garlic Cloves minced
  • 1 Tbsp Fresh Ginger grated
  • 1 Tbsp Raz El Hanout
  • 1 Cinnamon Stick
  • 6 C Chicken Stock
  • 2 Plum Tomatoes diced
  • ¼ C Pereg French Lentils
  • ½ C Canned Garbanzo Beans
  • ¼ C Basmati Rice
  • Pinch of Saffron
  • 8 oz Cream Cheese

Instructions

  • In a large pot over medium high heat, add the olive oil, followed by the ground lamb. Cook until browned, crumbling as it cooks, around 5 minutes. Drain excess fat.
  • Add the onion, cilantro, garlic, and ginger and cook until tender, around 5 minutes. Stir in the raz el hanout.
  • Add the tomatoes, cinnamon stick, and chicken stock, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Add the lentils, garbanzo beans, and rice, stir to combine, cover, and continue cooking for another 30 minutes, or until the lentils and rice are soft.
  • Ground the saffron with the back of a spoon and add to the harira, stir gently, and simmer for an additional 10 minutes. Serve immediately with a heaping dollop of cream cheese
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About Karly

From her childhood home in Southern Minnesota, Karly embraces the crazy of everyday life by creating delicious dishes her family and friends love, while experimenting with new flavors and techniques and photographing the results. Karly’s love for beautiful foods and joy for creating is infectious to all who meet her.

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  1. Laura says

    September 06, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    This may be a really stupid embarrassing question but if you don’t have cinnamon sticks could you use ground cinnamon instead, at a pinch? Thanks

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    • Karly says

      September 06, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      Not a stupid question at all! For every 3″ cinnamon stick, you can use 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon instead!

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