Aash E Shalgham Beef And Herb Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Mix ground meat with grated onions, salt and black pepper.
• Shape into small balls, and fry in oil until colour changes.
• Add 4-5 glasses of hot water and split peas and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes.
• Wash turnip and rice.
• Peel turnip and cut into a few pieces.
• Add both to aash.
• Also add turmeric, salt and black pepper.
• Mix well and cook over low heat for about 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• If using fresh mint, wash and chop finely.
• Fry mint in oil over medium heat for 2-3 minutes and pour over aash when serving.

Steps:

• Chop one onion and saute in oil until golden brown. Add turmeric, peas and water.
• Bring to a boil and then simmer for 20 minutes.
• Grate the second onion and mix into the ground beef. Form ground beef and onion mixture into small walnut sized balls and add to simmering soup mixture.
• Simmer for 10 minutes. Add the rice, parsley, cilantro, chives and spinach.
• Simmer for 30 minutes, stirring frequently. The rice should be tender at this point.
• In another pan, melt butter and stir fry the garlic for 2-3 minutes making sure it does not burn. Add the mint, giving it a quick stir and then sprinkle over the soup. Serve.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a heavy stockpot over medium-high heat. Add chopped onions and saute until soft, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook until browned, about 2 minutes. Stir in split peas; cook until peas take on a bit of color, about 1 minute.
• Pour chicken stock into the pot. Add pepper, turmeric, paprika, cayenne, fennel seeds, and cinnamon stick. Bring soup to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until peas are tender, about 20 minutes.
• While soup is simmering, prepare meatballs. Mix lamb, minced onion, mint, parsley, and garlic together. Form into walnut-sized meatballs. Drop meatballs into the simmering soup. Cook until no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes.
• Discard cinnamon stick from the soup. Add basmati rice, parsley, mint, pomegranate molasses, and honey. Cook until rice softens, about 20 minutes.
• Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with pomegranate seeds and cream.

Steps:

• Soak prunes in warm water for two hours.
• Peel and slice two onions and fry in oil until slightly golden.
• Make ground meat into 2 cm balls and fry with onions until colour changes.
• Add 3-4 glasses of water, and bring to a boil.
• Finely chop herbs.
• Wash rice once with warm water.
• Add herbs, rice, prunes (including the water it was soaked in), salt and black pepper to meat balls.
• Mix well and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Peel an slice 2 onions; fry in oil until golden.
• Add turmeric, tomato paste, salt and pepper.
• Add beef stock; add split peas; cook 10 minutes
• Wash rice; add to soup; cook for 10 minutes.
• Peel and grate remaining 2 onions.
• Add to meat with egg; shape into small balls; add to soup.
• Wash herbs; mince fine; add to soup; cook 10 minutes.
• Fry mint in oil; chop finely; if fresh add to top of soup like garnish.

Steps:

• Pick over, wash and soak the beans and chickpeas for about 2 hours. In a large pot cook for 40 minutes with 6 cups water. Add salt and pepper.
• Pick over and wash the lentils and add to the pot and cook for an extra 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Wash the herbs, drain the water and gently dry with a tea towel, chop finely and put aside.
• Chop and fry the onions in 1/4 cup of oil until golden. Put half aside for garnish. Add turmeric to the other half and stir-fry for a minute and add it to the soup pot.
• Add 9 cups of water to the pot. When it boils add the noodles and cook for 5 minutes.
• In a bowl, gradually add the flour to half a cup of water and blend well.
• Add this paste and the herbs to the pot and simmer for another 40 minutes.
• Mix the sour cream and buttermilk and add to the soup and stir. Cook for an extra 2 minutes.
• Empty the contents of the pot into a soup dish.
• Stir-fry the dried mint in 1/4 cup of oil for a minute and remove from heat.
• Garnish with fried mint, walnuts and the remaining fried onions.
• NOTE:.
• Dried herbs can be used if needed, 10g (3T) of dried herbs is approx equivelent of 100g fresh.
• Farah included buttermilk and sour cream for this recipe, but in Iran they use whey (Kashk) instead. They dissolve the kashk to make a thick liquid which they then add to the soup.