Ancient Egyptian Melokhia Soup

Name: Ancient Egyptian Melokhia Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Egyptian
Ingredients: 1 kg leg of lamb; 1.5 l water; salt; 2 fine cut onions; 2 garlic cloves; 1.5 l water; pepper; 200 g wild spinach; 2 garlic cloves; sunflower oil or olive oil; 1 tsp pepper; 2 tsp ground coriander

Lamb, wild spinach and coriander come together in this soup, baked in the oven. Serve with turkish bread.

35 min · Serves 6 · Easy

Method

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Time: Prep 5 min · Cook 30 min · 35 min total
Difficulty: easy

1
Put all the ingredients in a pan with a thick bottom for two hours and let it become broth.
2
Cut the little pieces of chicken and/or lamb and put them in the soup. Cut the spinach or melokhia in little rips and put them also in the soup.
3
Put a little sunflower or olive oil in the baking pan. Squeeze the strings garlic in the pan and bake them until they are gold-brown of color.
4
Then put the harissa and coriander in it. Now put the spicy paste in the soup. Always keep mixing.
5
Make sure the melokhia or spinach doesn't become overdone. Serve it with Turkish bread.