Hamin

Hamin

Alternative names	Adafina, dafina, sakhina
Type	Sabbath stew
Place of origin	Spain[1]
Created by	Sephardic Jews
Main ingredients	Whole grains, meat, beans, potatoes

Hamin or dafina is a Sabbath stew made from whole grains, cubes of meat, chickpeas or beans, onion and cumin that emerged in Iberia among Sephardic Jews.^[1] The dish was developed as Jewish chefs, perhaps first in Iberia, began adding chickpeas or fava beans and more water to harisa, a Middle Eastern porridge of cracked durum wheat berries and meat, to create a more liquidy bean stew. The similar Sabbath stew cholent was developed based on hamin by Ashkenazi Jews in Europe, first in France and later Germany.^[1]