Rfissa
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| Type | Tharid |
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| Place of origin | Morocco |
| Main ingredients | |
Rfissa (Arabic: رفيسة; Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵔⵔⴼⵉⵙⴰ)[1] is a Moroccan dish that is served during various traditional celebrations.[2]
It traditionally includes 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] The name rfissa goes back to the medieval rafis meaning dough kneaded with butter and dusted with sugar.[5]
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.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "ⵔⵔⴼⵉⵙⴰ". maroc.ma/amz/ (in Standard Moroccan Tamazight).
- ↑ "Rfissa Moroccan Chicken With Lentils) Recipe". themoroccanfood.com. 16 May 2023.
- ↑ "Rfissa Recipe - Moroccan Chicken and Lentils Over Shredded Pastry". moroccanfood.about.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
- 1 2 3 El Jamal, Ayoub (2018-12-18). "Anny Gaul: "The Cuisine of the City of Tetouan"". Tangier American Legation. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ Al-Tujībī, Ibn Razīn (2023-08-08). The Exile's Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa. Translated by Newman, Daniel L. Saqi Books. ISBN 978-0-86356-997-5.
- ↑ 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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