Preparation time:2-2.5 hours
Ingredients:
1/3 cup Flour
1/2 cup Chick peas
1/2 lb Lean lamb or beef diced
2 Large onions, chopped
1/4 ts Saffron
2 tb Paprika
1 Soup bones
1 tb Butter
2 tb Salt
1/2 ts Pepper
1/2 cup Dried broad beans
1 1/2 lb Tomatoes
1 Bunch parsley
1 Bunch fresh coriander
1 tb Butter
1/3 cup Rice
1 Lemon
1/2 cup Lentils
Serves 8
Method:
1-Soak overnight 1/3 cup flour in 1 cup water; 1/2 c chick peas in water to cover. Brown in lightly oil deep pan lamb, onions, saffron and paprika (increase or
decrease according to taste).
2-Add 6 cups of water, soup bones, butter, salt,
pepper, chick peas with skins popped off and discarded, and the dried broad
beans which have been washed and cleaned. Simmer, covered, for 2 hours or more.
3-20 mins. before serving, put through a food mill into the soup pan (or blend
with one cup of water) the tomatoes, parsley, coriander & the flour and water
paste. Add 3 cups of water, and when it returns to boil, add the vermicelli.
4-When the vermicelli is cooked, add 1 Tb butter and lemon juice (or serve a wedge
of lemon with each bowl to be squeezed on the soup). the soup should be velvety;
so add water or flour thickening if it is not.
*Note: Lentils may be substituted for chick peas; meat can be chicken; yeast may
be used in place of flour and water if that mixture was not made night before;
rice may be substituted for vermicelli. A soup served each night at sundown to
break the Ramadan Fast.
