Easy Moroccan Harira Recipe

Here’s a quick, easy, cheap and tasty Moroccan Harira soup recipe for you:

1 tin chickpeas or 110g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight and cooked until soft

50g dried spaghetti, broken into short pieces (I use wholewheat)

1 tin chopped tomatoes

1 veggie stock cube

1 white onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, crushed & chopped

200g carrots, chopped

Salt & pepper to taste

tsp extra virgin olive oil / 4 sprays low cal oil

1tsp turmeric powder

1/2 tsp cumin powder

1/2 tsp smoked paprika

1/4 tsp cinnamon

(optional) cayenne pepper to taste

Soften the onions, carrots and garlic. Add the chopped tomatoes, spaghetti, stock, seasoning, and a small amount of extra water. Cook for approx 5 mins. Then add the chickpeas (if using dried chickpeas you will need to have already soaked and cooked these so they are ready to add) and cook for a further 5-10 minutes on a lowish heat, covered, and stirring occasionally, adding extra water if required.

Serve ?

Made as above, and serving 4 people, calories per serving = 212, protein 11.2g, carbs 36.7g, fat 1.8g, fibre 4.6g

Scan the barcode in the image if you want to enter it into your MyFitnessPal diary

If you want to make it a bigger meal, just make the recipe serve 3 or 2 and multiply the MyFitnessPal entry by 1.5 or 2 respectively.

Made as above, and serving 2 people, calories per serving = 425, protein 22.4g, carbs 73.4g, fat 3.6g, fibre 9.3g

Made as above, and serving 3 people, calories per serving = 283, protein 14.9g, carbs 48.9g, fat 2.4g, fibre 6.2g

If you want to start tracking your food intake but don’t know what the best app is to use, I recommend the free app MyFitnessPal https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ and this is where you’ll scan the barcode in that’s shown above. If you want a FREE guide of how to use it, just head on over to my nutrition page on this website and you’ll find a section part-way down where you can request one from me.