Rfissa
Moroccan dish
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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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