🇪🇬 Egypt
Molokhia
Egypt's molokhia is finely chopped into a green velvet soup, finished with a sizzling garlic-coriander tasha.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 40 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Minced leaf, rabbit or chicken broth, and the famous crackling garlic “tasha” poured in at the end.
Ingredients
- 500 gmolokhia leaves, minced (fresh or frozen)
- 1½ Lchicken broth
- 8 clovesgarlic, crushed
- 2 tbspground coriander
- 3 tbspghee
- 1 tspsalt
Method
- 1
Bring the broth to a boil and stir in the minced molokhia; do not overboil or it sinks.
- 2
Simmer gently 10 minutes, uncovered.
- 3
Fry the garlic and coriander in ghee until golden and fragrant — the tasha.
- 4
Pour the sizzling tasha over the pot; it should audibly gasp (the “shahqa”).
- 5
Serve over rice or with bread, with chicken and lime wedges.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6