Rfissa (Arabic: رفيسة) is a Moroccan dish that is served during various traditional celebrations.[2]
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| Type | Tharid |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Morocco |
| Main ingredients | msemmen, chicken, lentils, fenugreek, ras el hanout |
Food energy | 901[1] kcal |
| Other information | Sodium 1,437 mg, protein 37 g, vitamin A 6%, calcium 7%, vitamin C 12%, iron 50% [1] |
It is traditionally served with chicken, lentils, fenugreek seeds (helbainArabic), msemmen, meloui or day-old bread, and the spice blend Ras el-Hanout.[3]
It is traditional to serve rfissa to a woman who has just given birth, as fenugreek is purported to be beneficial for women that are recovering from childbirth.[4]
Rfissa is derived from tharid (ثريد), a traditional Arab dish said to have been the Prophet Muhammad's favorite dish.[4]
This dish did not appear in Moroccan cookbooks until the 1990s.[4] The cultural historian Anny Gaul suggests that this might be due to the fact that rfissa is related to rural culinary traditions, whereas the people writing cookbooks for a long time were mostly Fessi elites.[5]
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