🇲🇦 Morocco cuisine · #6

Rfissa

Rfissa
Time120 min
Serves6
Ingredients12

Torn msemen flatbread soaked in a broth of free-range chicken scented with fenugreek, lentils and ras el hanout — served after childbirth and at family gatherings.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Cook the chicken with sliced onion, spices, fenugreek, oil and smen, then add water.
  2. After 30 minutes add the lentils and cook until the chicken is tender.
  3. Tear the msemen into strips and warm over steam.
  4. Put the msemen in a dish, soak with broth, and top with chicken and lentils.
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