Recipe: Appetizing Moroccans Rfissa

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Moroccans Rfissa. Morocco has its own mouthwatering version: rfissa medhoussa, or trid, a wonderfully savory chicken, onion, and lentil dish that's served on a bed of shredded trid pastry, msemen, meloui, or even day-old bread. The blend of ras el hanout, fenugreek seeds (helba in Arabic), saffron, and other spices makes a truly unique and delicious dish. As such, it's traditionally served on the third day.

Rfissa (Arabic: رفيسة ‎) is a dish that is very popular in Morocco and is served during various traditional celebrations.

It is traditionally served with chicken and lentils and fenugreek seeds (tifiḍas in Amazigh, helba in Arabic), msemmen, meloui or day-old bread, and the blend of ras el hanout.

It's traditional to serve rfissa to a woman who has just given birth, as fenugreek is.

You can cook Moroccans Rfissa using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Moroccans Rfissa

You need of Masammen. Ingredients:-.
You need 1/2 of kilo fine semolina.
Prepare 1/2 of kilo white flour.
Prepare Pinch of salt.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of instant yeast.
You need of Preparing the broth &chicken Ingredients :-.
Prepare 1 of whole chicken.
You need 4 of onions,choppe.
It’s 1 teaspoon of saffron.
Prepare 1 cup of lentils.
Prepare 1/2 cup of olive oil.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of ghee.
You need of Black paper &salt.
Prepare 2 liters of water for boiling.

Rfissa is one of those dishes.

The simple ingredients of chicken and lentils are elevated with the inclusion of spices and a slow cooking time - until everything is falling apart, delicious.

Rfissa is a special dish that is typically made around the time a woman has a baby.

Rfissa is a traditional Moroccan dish of stewed chicken pieces, onions, and lentils served over shredded msemmen, old bread, or trid pastry.

Moroccans Rfissa instructions

First of all we must prepare the flatbread ""Msammen"" as its called in Morocco. Preparation:- Mix all ingredients together with Luke warm water until get a smooth dough,very similar in consistency to bread dough.
Cut the dough &from into small sized ball, set aside. Use generous amounts of both oil & butter throughout this step. Brush some of oil & melted butter onto a clean counter or surface ;make sure your hands are well_oiled as well..
Use your fingers to start to flatten one of the balls of dough,then use the plan of your hand circular wiping motions work well. To gradually spread out the dough into a large circular,the thinner the better..
Try not to tear the dough while working,but dont worry if you make any because you're going to be folding it up into layers anyway..
Fold each dough circle in thirds toward the middle,&once again from the nearest & farthest edges to from a square. Set the layered square of dough aside & repet with the other balls of dough. Warm up your griddle or a frying pan. Take a folded square of dough & press it to flatten it out a little more. Fry each flatbread for 2-3 minutes per side until golden brown..
Heat some olive oil ok a cooking pot,add onit, mixed spices &sat &stir.Add ghee &chicken &keep stirring to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot until the chicken Browns up a little..
Add 2litter of water to the chicken & let it to cook.. Halfway through the cooking process add the Lentils..
When all ingredients are cooked through serve it in this order..
Cut or tear the Msammen Flatbread into big pieces &place at the bottom of a serving dish..
Add chicken on top Msammen & at the center. Ladle lentils on top of the chicken & on around it covering the sides of the dish.
Pour some of the chicken broth on top of everything in the serving dish..
Note:- You can replace the Msammen flatbread with the Mediterranean //shrak// bread..

The full list of ingredients is as follows: chicken, onions, saffron, ginger, lentils, msemmen, fenugreek seeds, and ras el hanout.

Rfissa (Moroccan Chicken With Lentils) Recipe by FDADELKARIM.

This dish is made on special occasions in Morocco.

It is served in one communal dish & everyone eats out of it with their right hand (no utensils).

It is time consuming to make but it is much easier if you have a second pair of hands to help. (Smen is a special kind of rancid.