how to make lentil soup

Easy, light and healthy soup.

warm dinner in a cold winter day.

A meal for babies .

Ingredients:

- 1 cup yellow lentils ( washed).

-1 medium onion.

- 1 medium potato.

- 1 medium carrot.

- 1 tomato.

- salt + 1 tsp cumin + 1 tbsp onion powder +1 tsp garlic powder.

* you can replace the garlic powder with one clove of garlic.

cooking:
 Cut all the ingredients in any shape and size .. and put it in a pot on the stove and add 1 liter of water and the salt.

Let it simmer  until tender then put in a blender to grind with the cumin, the onion and the garlic powder.

* Select the amount of water according to the required intensity of the soup .. Reduce the water if  thick .And increase the water if light.

serve it warm with bread

Bon appetit

how to make Molokhia _ Mallow _ Corchorus

  One of the delicious  Egyptian dishes . You find it in all menus in the finest hotels in Egypt.

 Ingredients:

  -1/2 kilo fresh Molokhia .. or frozen.

  - 1/2 liter stock (meat or chicken).

  - 2 cloves of garlic + 1 tbsp ground     coriander seeds.

  - salt

 preparing

  wash the Molokhia very well.

  pick the leaves of the mallow.

  let them dry of excess water.

 

  start  chopping  the mallow leaves very fine, you can use a knife or food processor , but most Egyptians use (el- makrata) the semicircular knife, which is the easiest and fastest tool.

  

  this is a picture at the beginning of  chopping  the mallow.

continue chopping to be very fine like this. 

  add salt to the soup and boil it ... then add the mallow.

  

  let it boil for just one minute ( the more we boil Molokhia makes it separated from the soup and settle to the bottom).

  in another container (pan) mince the garlic with the coriander.

  then add 1tbsp ghee and saute it until golden ( don't burn the garlic) 

   Finally add it immediately to the mallow and stir.

  serve it with rice or bread and pickle eggplant .. some times we offer with tomato sauce.