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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Northern Africa >> Moroccan

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In large heavy saucepan or dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in onion and celery and cook, covered, for 7-10 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring occasionally. | 2. Add cinnamon, turmeric, salt, pepper, ginger, hot pepper sauce and saffron. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas and broth. Bring to boil, reduce heat, and simmer, covered, for about 40 minutes or until lentils are tender. | 3. Stir in noodles and simmer, covered, about 7 minutes longer or until noddles are just tender. In bowl, whisk flour, and 1 cup water until smooth. Whisk flour mixture into soup and simmer, stirring often, for 2-4 minutes or until soup is thickened and no raw flour taste remains. | 4. Stir in half of the parsley and cilantro, and all of the lemon juice. Taste and adjust seasoning, adding up to 1/2 tsp more salt if needed. Garnish with remaining parsley and cilantro. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	2	tablespoons		171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
onion	2		chopped	128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
celery rib	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
cinnamon	1	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
turmeric	1/2	teaspoon		4.68	1.0071	0.1452	0.0488
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
ginger	1/4	teaspoon	ground	0.4	0.0888	0.0091	0.0038
pepper sauce	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
saffron	1	pinch	crumbled	0.1356	0.0286	0.005	0.0026
tomato	1	can	diced	40.2099	8.6898	1.9658	0.4468
brown lentil	1	cup		-	-	-	-
chickpea	1	can	drained	1133.4333	188.7556	61.3793	18.1109
vegetable broth	4	cups		649.44	105.288	23.8128	15.3504
vermicelli	1/4	cup		150.5105	31.8679	4.4733	0.555
flour	2	tablespoons		72.285	15.8257	1.1751	0.2804
parsley	1/2	cup		10.8	1.899	0.8909999999999999	0.237
cilantro	1/2	cup		1.84	0.2936	0.1704	0.0416
lemon juice	1/4	cup		13.42	4.209	0.2135	0.1464

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.