Sunday, October 11, 2009

Noodle soup (Ash-e-reshteh)








Ingredients:

1. Chickpea ½ cups
2. White bean ½ cups
3.Pinto bean ½ cups
4. Lentil ½ cups
5. Spinach 2 cups (cooked)
6. Parsley and Cilantro 1 cup (finely chopped)
7. Noodle 8 oz (you can buy noodle in Oriental stores such as H mart or Iranian stores)
8. Onion 1 large (chops and fries in 4 tbsp of oil)
9. Garlic 5 cloves (optional, you can chop and fry with onion)
10. Whey (kashk) 2 cups or vinegar ½ cup
11. Dry mint 1tbsp
12. Oil
13. Salt
14. Sugar ½ to 1 1bsp
15. Turmeric 1 tsp
16. Flour 1 tbsp

Directions:

Wash Chickpeas and beans add about 4 cups of water and let them cook (it will done about 1, ½ hour)
Add lentil, spinach, half of fried onion and half of turmeric, let boil for 20 minutes.
Add parsley and cilantro, bring to boil then add noodles stir time to time while it is cooking.
When noodles cooked use to mix flour with a cup of cold water and add to the pot and let boil for about 10 minutes (stir time to time).
Add either kashk or vinegar, salt and sugar and let boil for last 10 minutes.
Add mint and rest of turmeric to rest of onion and also some oil, let mint fry then remove from heat, use it on top of your dish.
Enjoy

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