Rfissa
Rfissa (Arabic: رفيسة) is an Arab Moroccan dish and is served during various traditional celebrations.
| Type | Tharid |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Morocco |
| Main ingredients | msemmen, chicken, lentils, fenugreek, ras el hanout |
| 901 kcal | |
| Other information | Sodium 1,437 mg, protein 37 g, vitamin A 6%, calcium 7%, vitamin C 12%, iron 50% |
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 spices blend ras el hanout.
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.
Rfissa is derived from tharid (ثريد), a traditional Arab dish said to have been the Prophet Muhammad's favorite dish.
This dish did not appear in Moroccan cookbooks until the 1990s. 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.