Ashe Reshte (Noodle Soup)

Name: Ashe Reshte (Noodle Soup)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 7 servings
Cuisine: Persian Plateau & Isfahan
Ingredients: 0.5 lb ground beef; 1 small onion; 0.25 tsp cinnamon; 0.25 tsp pepper; 0.5 tsp salt; 4 cup water; 1.5 tsp salt; 0.25 cup black-eyed peas; 0.25 cup lentils; 1 cup noodles; 0.5 tsp pepper; 0.5 cup parsley; 1 tbsp dried mint; 0.25 tsp pepper; 0.25 tsp cinnamon

Gently simmered beef, lentils and black-eyed peas, warmed with cinnamon, a Persian soup.

40 min · Serves 7 · Medium

Method

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Time: Prep 5 min · Cook 35 min · 40 min total
Difficulty: medium

1
Put the meat in a bowl. Add grated onions and seasoning, mix well and make meat balls the size of walnuts.
2
Put the water in a 3-qt pot. Add salt and black-eyed peas and let cook for 15 minutes. Add meat balls, lentils, noodles, pepper and parsley and let simmer on a medium fire for about 35 minutes.
3
Rub dried mint in the palm of your hands to make it powdery. Add cinnamon and pepper to the mint.
4
Add this to the soup just before removing it from the fire.