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Rfissa (Arabic: رفيسة) is a Moroccan dish that is served during various traditional celebrations.[2]

It traditionally includes chicken, lentils, fenugreek seeds (helba in Arabic), 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] The name rfissa goes back to the medieval rafis meaning dough kneaded with butter and dusted with sugar.[5]

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.[6]

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References

  1. ^ a b “Calories in Moroccan Dish Rfissa – Calories and Nutrition Facts – MyFitnessPal.com”. www.myfitnesspal.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  2. ^ “Rfissa Moroccan Chicken With Lentils) Recipe – Food.com”. 16 May 2023.
  3. ^ “Rfissa Recipe – Moroccan Chicken and Lentils Over Shredded Pastry”. Archived from the original on 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  4. ^ a b c Jamal, Ayoub El (2018-12-18). “Anny Gaul: “The Cuisine of the City of Tetouan”“. Tangier American Legation. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  5. ^ Al-Tujībī, Ibn Razīn (2023-08-08). The Exile’s Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa. Translated by Newman, Daniel L. Saqi Books. ISBN 978-0-86356-997-5.
  6. ^ Idrissi, Abdelbaar Mounadi (2018-12-18). “Anny Gaul: “The Cuisine of the City of Tetouan”“. Tangier American Legation Museum. Retrieved 2021-10-28.