Harira Powder

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons ground pumpkin seeds
• 3 tablespoons ground almonds
• 3 tablespoons ground pistachios (shelled, skinned)
• 3 tablespoons roasted ground poppy seeds (khus khus)
• 1 teaspoon ground green cardamoms, skinned
• 1 tablespoon anise (saunf)

Recipe

• 1 all the dried fruits should be unsalted.
• 2 the almonds maybe ground with their skins on, but the pistas need to have their skins removed. just bunch them in a muslin cloth and rub them and viola no skin!
• 3 if time permits roast the seeds slightly; cool them completely then grind and store.
• 4 poppy seeds are tricky to grind - make sure you roast them and then grind them; or better still look for ground poppy seeds in grocery stores.
• 5 if it's too time consuming for you, include the skins of the green cardamom - though these fibrous buds don't grind fine and surface up on the palette - in curries ground skins don't stand out, here in a shake they just might to a discerning palette.
• 6 could be made into warm milkshakes or into frozen milk lollies as a teatime nutritious snack. sweeten with sugar though.
• 7 for an additional punch, you may add a dash of cinnamon powder or 1 tsp dried vanilla powder.