🇩🇿 Algeria
Chorba frik
Algeria's Ramadan pot is chorba frik — green cracked wheat in a peppery lamb-tomato broth.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 50 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Smoky green freekeh instead of lentils, dried mint at the end — Algeria's iftar signature.
Ingredients
- 200 gfreekeh (frik)
- 300 glamb, cubed
- 3 tbsptomato paste
- 1 onion
- 1 tspras el hanout and black pepper
- 1 tspdried mint
- ½ bunchcoriander
Method
- 1
Brown the lamb and onion, bloom the tomato paste and spices.
- 2
Add water and simmer until the meat softens.
- 3
Rain in the rinsed frik and cook until plump.
- 4
Finish with coriander and a rub of dried mint between the palms.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6