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''Rfissa'' ( ar, رفيسة) is a Moroccan dish and is served during various traditional celebrations. It is traditionally served with chicken and lentils and fenugreek seeds (''tifiḍas'' in
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, ''helba'' in
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), msemmen, meloui or day-old bread, and the blend of
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. 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. ''Rfissa'' is derived from ''
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'' (), a traditional Arab dish said to have been the Prophet
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'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
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elites.


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