it's the night before refusa for my wife and i'm very nervous it's like a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to make refusa for your wife after she has a baby so i hope i do this right
i'm about to marinate the chicken with turmeric salt and pepper
that's what alia said so here's our chicken one kilo just over one kilo of drumsticks only
never seen refusal like this before you want some chicken with your salt
oh yeah slovenian black pepper pulper
your secret stash of turmeric gonna give it that
distinctive yellow color let's get some of that in there oh that's a lot oh yeah turmeric time
i think that should be good i know we got a lot of chicken put some more in there
okay that's good and i found some slovenian rascal henry this chicken mix is a variety of spices
it says on the back it could be used for marinades so i'm gonna put some of this in there you know
it's it's not gonna hurt it maybe it'll balance out the salt a little bit some olive oil it's
just a refilled bottle it's actually better than this stuff some of that in there boom some regular
vegetable oil never hurt anyone boom and now i mix it but it's still cold i don't want to do that
but you gotta do what you got to do i'm going with the hands-free method shake andrew fisa
mission accomplished putting it in the fridge
see you tomorrow for more refusa action
i told you we were excited for this for fisa so i couldn't leave it alone last night the light
was bad so i didn't do any more recording but here's what i added you could see the red paprika
i added ginger some saffron in there um cinnamon and i think that's my version of ross el hanoots
of course chopped up onions you can see in there and i chopped some garlic so i figured
the longer this would marinate with all these good flavors the better it would be so later that day
it was time to cook start boiling the chicken i prepared the almonds which i decided to add
and i had to do this voiceover because andrea's family was there and i didn't want to just be
talking to myself in the kitchen it felt a little weird here we're adding the secret
ingredient fenugreek and i hope i added enough to stimulate stimulate breast milk production and of
course the lentils to make this dish extra hearty and a little more water because we like our sauce
and you got to stir everything together i think next time i need to add warm water because it kind
of stopped the cooking process here parsley from the garden to give it a little extra freshness
and we put the lid on recipes call for smen which we don't have in slovenia i guess i could have
substituted ghee but butter is much cheaper here i'm adding some eggs because it makes the dish
look pretty and andrea likes eggs preparing them a salmon to be reheated and i'm gonna
braise the chicken because it was finished cooking and i wanted the skin to be a little
crispy not so moist the almonds are toasting getting ready to be put on top
and the lentils are boiling a bit too much here oh no had to do some skills to put them
a cement on a smaller plate in order to steam them since we made them yesterday
we want to keep them fresh usually you steam them with a couscous okay now it's pancake time
the cinnamon on the plate it's been steamed in the microwave now i could talk the family is
left we can make video next step will be the chicken arrange it oh it's hot beautifully
on the plate
and then i'm gonna sauce it up get the sauce on there next step
we got a lot of sauce here which is great
wow i can't believe i'm really doing this can you no
yes miss seven's gonna be just soaked in sauce that's what we want
i made a lot of sauce which is good i have some sauce on the side too
maybe not too much we don't like to get uh so soaked um what are we gonna do next
almonds i mean i could just make them into oh no i dropped some
i couldn't make them into a nice line but i'm hungry i'm gonna just get these on top
huh camera
that's our almonds on top top it with a little egg
what's up i did that egg for andre i don't like egg but i know she does
oh one one other fun ingredient right here the dates
time to put her down it's time for us feet all right
i think it looks pretty good see what andrea has to say
but i definitely made a little too much sauce or i didn't put enough on there and now we wait for mom
it's so hard to not just get in there and eat some but we must wait maybe just a little almond
smells good oh my god
you did it like for eight people or ten people well that's why i kept telling your family to
stay for dinner but i think they didn't want to disturb us and they left us being
you know that's nice of them but look at all this let's recall felix invite him oh
okay time for you to try it yeah yeah have a seat see my nice bouquet
very nice for my hubby oh yeah flowers flowers
just for you all right for me now is the time
excuse me take mine so you explained everything about this right yeah i already said it in the
last video everything about refusa but this is for new moms don't worry about that right now
just eat some i want to put it on my plate you know okay just just try some first okay okay okay
now we're gonna do it like moroccan yeah just eat it from there
i put a lot of sauce on there you could always add more
was it good yeah i felt a bit tired today you know from all the excitement
going home and packing and coming home and now i think this is perfect meal for me
i'm glad you enjoy i put hard-boiled eggs on there for you mm-hmm because you don't like them yeah
dates to make it look pretty toasted some almonds look at this nice color of the eggs are they um
farm eggs i don't know no i think they're hopper eggs
color is great like slovenian eggs have good color so this dish is made for new moms on the third day
third day you came home from the hospital we made rafissa don't worry she's quiet with homemade miss
semen check out that other video if you didn't see that it was a big project two days marinating
the chicken overnight let's hope it's good yeah we could use more sauce in there there's a surprising
amount of a cinnamon what do we have sauce plenty of sauce maybe i didn't sauce in enough
it's rich
not exactly like the moroccan one though i think it's missing the smed
i just put butter instead of smen but it's it's very amazing within the seven
yeah it's even more rich with missamen you want to tell what miscellaneous salmon is moroccan
pancake oh no but smen man is aged butter aged butter okay aged butter and here's the chicken
i'm very rich so i think what what separates this from the couscous we had in morocco
is couscous rasa uh refisa morocco is no ross elenu and no smen so i think if we had those
it'd be like dead on but the presentation looks exactly the same even my plate i brought from
morocco the first time i came home well done yeah but it needs more sauce surprisingly but the miss
salmon is still good even soaked like yeah it's very good because you sprinkle it with water
yeah and i put it in the microwave and then by the time you put all this sauce on there
it just continues to soak and be good so much you like that yeah when i was eating
refisa for the first time at salt house i was like wow why i didn't try this before
so now we did it i would do it again next time someone has a baby
okay okay let's see let's look at this food refisa in morocco is eaten from
a communal plate as you see here and there's different variations depending on your region
how do you feel after you revisa meal very good i feel amazing and energized but also i need a nap
so thank you so much thank you all for watching and why do we eat rafissa after having a baby
why so apparently it contains fenugreek right which is very important for lactation
so you can get enough milk for your baby and here in europe you just get drops or fennel
greek which is really boring but in morocco you get refisa this amazing juicy meal and
look at this we're gonna eat this for next three days which i think there's so much
slap still we put a dent though you can kind of see the bottom of the plate there okay but this
an egg and chicken and lentils and pancake it's super fun yeah in my country you usually get like
beef soup or beef broth or chicken soup and chicken broth
for new moms so flaky so let us know what do you get in your country when you have a baby
what is the best food or traditional food you would bring or make for uh new moms all right
i will see you next time and a big thank you to the stork for bringing us rafissa and a baby