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Harira - Moroccan Chickpea and Lentil Soup Recipe

A traditional way to break the Ramadan fast. A delicious, filling and wholesome meal of a soup that tastes even better the next day.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Chickpea and lentils share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

8 - 10 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chickpea + lentilstop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,775 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Turmeric + chickpeatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive, tomato, pepper, ginger, cinnamon, turmeric):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, olive, tomato, pepper, ginger, cinnamon, turmeric. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).