The Arabic version of the name may sound weird at first, but this seemingly simple soup is actually delicious! In the old days, my mother used to make pasta at home because she liked to make dough at home, and since she didn’t have a machine to help, she would make it all by hand. Today I also prepared the pasta at home, but these days I use a pasta machine to roll and cut it. It can also be made with ready made pasta; either way this soup is delicious.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of lentils
• about 200 grams pasta
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/2 cup chopped coriander
• 1 tablespoon dried coriander
• 1 teaspoon salt+1 teaspoon for boiling the lentils
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1 tablespoon corn oil+ 1 teaspoon to fry the garlic

Preparation:

• Boil the lentils in about 1 liter of water, when tender discard the water
• In a pot, heat 1 tablespoon oil and fry the onions until transparent, add the lentils and cover with water
• Add the pasta and let it boil until the pasta is cooked (if using fresh pasta it will take only 2 minutes to cook)

• In a small saucepan fry the crushed garlic with dried and fresh coriander and a teaspoon of salt, until light golden
• Put the garlic over the lentils soup, and let it simmer for two minutes
• Finally add the cumin to the soup

ET VOILA ..C’EST TOUT . BON APPETIT 🙂