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

Rfissa

Type	Tharid
Place of origin	Morocco
Main ingredients	msemmen, chicken, lentils, fenugreek, ras el hanout
Food energy (per serving)	901[1] kcal
Other information	Sodium 1,437 mg, protein 37 g, vitamin A 6%, calcium 7%, vitamin C 12%, iron 50% [1]
Media: Rfissa

It is traditionally served with chicken and lentils and fenugreek seeds (tifiḍas in Amazigh, helba in Arabic), msemmen, meloui or day-old bread, and the blend of 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 child birth.[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 Fesi elites.[5]

See also

• Couscous
• Tajine

References

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