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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Northern Africa >> Moroccan

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a large soup pot, stew pot or dutch oven cook the chick peas and white beans seperately until just tender. | 2. Using a smaller pot, cook the lentils for 20 minutes and drain the beans and lentils. | 3. In the same pot, saute the onions, garlic*, ginger, paprika and cumin approximately 5 minutes in the oil. I use the olive oil for this one as the Moroccan home cooks who I know will allow this cooking of olive oil rarely and for this recipe. | 4. Add the water, lentils, chick peas, white beans, tomatoes, carrots, pepper and cumin, black pepper and salt to taste. Our black pepper used in a teaspoon will impart some good spicy heat to the dish. Should your black pepper not do this then please add a bit more black pepper as we do not use cayenne here. | 5. Bring to a boil for a 5 minutes and simmer 3/4 covered 1 to 1 1/2 hours or longer, until the beans and lentils are soft but not mushy. | 6. I have seen mny similar recipes on the internet stating to puree some of the soup and return it to the pot. While this is a nice idea, most Moroccan homes do not have a blender and this soup is not intended to be made as such. | 7. Prep. time does not include soaking and pre-cooking the beans. | 8. * Omit the garlic if using for Ramadan. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
onion	2	cups	chopped	128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
garlic clove	3		minced	13.41	2.9754	0.5724	0.045
water	8	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
brown lentil	1	cup		-	-	-	-
chickpea	1	cup	soaked	756.0	125.9	40.94	12.08
white bean overnight	1	cup	soaked	-	-	-	-
tomato	4		peeled diced	248.2759	55.0525	12.9535	2.1589
carrot	1 1/2	cups	sliced	78.72	18.3936	1.7856	0.4608
ginger	1	teaspoon	ground	1.6	0.3554	0.0364	0.015
paprika	2	teaspoons	sweet	12.972000000000001	2.4835	0.6504	0.5929
black pepper	2	teaspoons		11.546	2.9417	0.4779	0.15
cumin	1/2	teaspoon	ground	3.9375	0.4645	0.187	0.2338
extra virgin olive oil	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-

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