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How to Prepare Green Molokhia
Total time100 min
Prep40 min
Cook60 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyHard
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Soups and stews

ChefFatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

How to Prepare Green Molokhia

One of the tastiest and most popular dishes is green molokhia. There are different ways to prepare molokhia, but this homemade recipe is very, very delicious.

Ingredients

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  • Green molokhia, as desired
  • 1 whole chicken, bone-in
  • Seasonings for boiling the chicken
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 head of garlic, about 7 cloves
  • 1 bunch fresh coriander
  • Hot red pepper
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • Note
  • You can also grill an onion over the heat and add it to the molokhia; it gives it an excellent flavor...

Method

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  1. After harvesting the molokhia, wash it well and spread it on a large tray to dry.
  2. We wash the chicken thoroughly and rub it with salt, vinegar, lemon and a spoonful of flour... boil the chicken with all the aromatics such as bay leaf, cloves, cardamom pods and nutmeg, then set it aside...
  3. Prepare a pot with two tablespoons of oil and add a quantity of finely chopped garlic, cilantro, and chili pepper with salt, and sauté them on the stove...
  4. Then add the washed molokhia little by little and continue stirring for about a quarter of an hour, then add enough of their cooking liquid with lemon juice and let it boil; about a quarter of an hour before turning off the heat add the boiled chicken...
  5. Note: you can char an onion on the fire and add it with the molokhia for an excellent flavor...
  6. Serve the green molokhia with white rice and a mix of chopped onion with vinegar

Recipe tags

Soups and stewsEgyptianDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg freeHardLong cook

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Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

If you see a recipe written as poetry, it’s surely Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch—known as Umm Badr—who posted it. Between mawawil and rhymed prose, her rice dishes arrive effortlessly and win the admiration of everyone in our group.

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