Rfissa
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Type | Tharid |
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Place of origin | Morocco |
Main ingredients | msemmen, chicken, lentils, fenugreek, ras el hanout |
Food energy (per serving) | 901[1] kcal |
Other information | Sodium 1,437 mg, protein 37 g, vitamin A 6%, calcium 7%, vitamin C 12%, iron 50% [1] |
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Rfissa (Arabic: رفيسة) is a Moroccan dish that is served during various traditional celebrations.[2]
It is traditionally served with chicken, lentils, fenugreek seeds (helba in Arabic), msemmen, meloui or day-old bread, and the spice blend Ras el-Hanout.[3]
It is traditional to serve rfissa to a woman who has just given birth, as fenugreek is purported to be beneficial for women that are recovering from childbirth.[4]
Rfissa is derived from tharid (ثريد), a traditional Arab dish said to have been the Prophet Muhammad's favorite dish.[4]
This dish did not appear in Moroccan cookbooks until the 1990s.[4] The cultural historian Anny Gaul suggests that this might be due to the fact that rfissa is related to rural culinary traditions, whereas the people writing cookbooks for a long time were mostly Fessi elites.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Calories in Moroccan Dish Rfissa - Calories and Nutrition Facts - MyFitnessPal.com". www.myfitnesspal.com.
- ^ "Rfissa Moroccan Chicken With Lentils) Recipe - Food.com". 16 May 2023.
- ^ "Rfissa Recipe - Moroccan Chicken and Lentils Over Shredded Pastry".
- ^ a b c Jamal, Ayoub El (2018-12-18). "Anny Gaul: "The Cuisine of the City of Tetouan"". Tangier American Legation. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Idrissi, Abdelbaar Mounadi (2018-12-18). "Anny Gaul: "The Cuisine of the City of Tetouan"". Tangier American Legation Museum. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
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