all right welcome this is round two of herrera with more acro we're cooking this in celebration
of ramadan 2022 sadly we can't be in morocco at this time we're in the usa we're gonna make
karira for my mom she hasn't had it since we went to the moroccan restaurant last year so i think
she's gonna enjoy this homemade taste i got a lot of comments on my last torrido video about tips
and tricks and someone messaged me on instagram named zara and she sent me this long list of
ingredients and techniques so we're gonna go ahead and do that today we have two tablespoons
oil and two tablespoons butter some lamb or beef cut into small pieces tomato paste and tomato
sauce some salt turmeric powder we're using a little raw salvagnu uh don't tell anyone ginger
powder cinnamon black pepper parsley cilantro stalk of celery large onion handful of chickpeas
tablespoon of smen we don't have which is kind of sad cup of dried lentils small cup of
vermicelli we don't have to use small pasta and a cup of flour what i like about this recipe is
it uses the blender it's going to chop up all these herbs nice and fine so let's get to that
cilantro not easily found in slovenia but we got it here in america luckily i cut some celery up
put it in with the cilantro from the store my mom had some frozen parsley from the garden
last year so we're gonna go ahead and use all that we don't need to rinse it because it's uh
organic home-grown stuff do you ever see someone cut an onion with scissors before no neither
that's why because it doesn't work there we go
works great more accurate kitchen hacks that's good enough thing about this blender is it's
super powerful it's nine years old but it's gonna chop this stuff up no problem
time for some action all the way up to six
now drink this let's smell it
go smell it
big whiff
oh it's good for my nose yeah it's strong stuff huh i don't know if it's
yeah but it's good for my cold it's medicinal i like it let's try again you can't get enough of it
you like it yeah it's healthy oh i have to bite my dough now time for some pan action
put the butter in there using olive oil today not vegetable oil two tablespoons in there looks like
two tablespoons right i took my gondora off because we're frying with some oil and some
meat and i don't want it smelling like i was in the kitchen all day it's my fine wear so where
is saving that where did you get your gandura um order your souk and where did you get this
anza souk retark i think where did you get this that's another story for another day
it's a lot of oil in there another thing when making harira that i learned is
every family has a different recipe so this may not be the way you do it in your house
but this is the way that zara told me to do it um zara told me to do it on
instagram i told her i'd cook it a long time ago we're finally getting to it now
last time i cooked i think we used turkey because that's what was available to us in tamara today
we have access to beef so i'm going to put a half pound of beef in there because beef's
expensive i'm gonna let it cook until it browns a little bit it gets unstuck from
the bottom and i'll scrape that bottom juice off and get it super flavorful
excuse me you're supposed to sleep while we cook and film
you woke up early from your nap so now mommy's gonna take you and film by myself
it's nice and brown now we're gonna add our green juice to it
i've never seen a soup like this before interesting isn't it so interesting
what do you think so kill me you're gonna eat dates we're gonna eat soup
you're gonna eat this we have a new executive assistant here just cut the recipe book
and this is also the time we're supposed to add a cup of lentils
one tablespoon of turmeric it says one and a half tablespoons of ginger
it seems like a lot but we'll do one and a third we don't want to use all mom's ginger
you like spices you like moroccan spices
one teaspoon cinnamon powder and now the soup's green but i think by the time we add the spices
the tomatoes cook the lentils we'll start turning that reddish brown because i've never
seen greenhouse might exist but not in this kitchen hoping for a teaspoon of black pepper
pretty good eyeball again huh a good ball yeah put on medium to high heat
and leave it for at least 30 minutes the goal is that the lentils cook well
i'm going to add more water this is some boiled water she said until it's three quarters full
three quarters of water of the pan but it depends on the pan i would say
yeah i think this should be good then we're gonna cover it and let the lentils cook for
up to 40 minutes it's already turning brownish but still a little green andrea is with roomy
napping feeding something like that so i'm solo the rest of this video
let's continue 40 minutes later lentils are cooked i'm gonna add the chickpeas
i'm hoping this tomato paste will make the soup a bit more red or even brownish
if the tomato paste didn't do it i hope this tomato puree will
that color is already looking a little better
add some salt not too much because you can't take it out now i did this last time i cooked tarira
i did a flour water mixture to help thicken it up at the end but i didn't have a blender so
it's quite clumpy now we're going to do it in the blender and a blender making my job easy
okay now adding my flour mixture slowly a little bit at a time and stirring
this is the only time you'll see it because it's hard to do
with one hand she also said high heat at this point and five to ten minutes it should take
to add the flour mixture last step add the pasta oh no vermicelli today okay
and oh steamy we're gonna stir constantly so it doesn't get stuck and the soup is
not green anymore which is great news much better color no no um
celebration of ramadan 2022 we made my mom somehow
i hope she likes it it's my first time no you had it at the restaurant first time in the house okay
if you like it we'll make some bizarro next very good
so nice and comforting and a cold day like today in chicago it's minus four today looks
really sunny but still all alive if you want some salt there's salt and cumin too you put on top
thank you and eating it with dates is nice as well oh okay very good thank you so much
yeah she wants soup
i like it i think it's better than last time i made it i think it's more creamy and thick
which is what you want right yeah you don't want watery soup it was pretty thick last time you
don't remember it was very thick last time too but not so creamy not the right kind of dick
it says it's really thick was the first impression
you don't have to fake it do you like it or not be honest irish man reaction
yes or no
take me out video and i'll tell you
we're too young for soup but we like our dates so moroccan baby
what do you think of the soup no don't feel me
i'm filming roomie andrea doesn't want to be filmed for some reason it's just very
beautiful but what do you think of the soup andrea it's good it's a perfect winter soup
stop thickness check
that was harira round two took about two hours to cook and i think the final product
was better than last time it was familiar didn't need too much salt or cumin at the
end i loved eating it with some dates where are you making that stop moving me because
you're moving the camera i'm just trying to keep my feet warm underneath you you know okay
then you're moving the camera perfect day for somehow you know no no we're here to
keep rolling so happy ramadan 2022 let us know if there's any other recipes we should attempt
i think i'm gonna try and make my mom some be sorrow one day we should do some desserts
that's your specialty no my cookies last year were disaster remember
no no everyone loved them melvin ate them all all right see you next time