Soups and stews
ChefLoubna Fawaz
How to Make Molokhia
Molokhia, or molokhiyyeh, in a delicious recipe... served with lemon juice and fluffy rice with vermicelli! You must try this method.
Molokhia made at home, a delicious dish indeed — truly a royal meal!
Ingredients
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- 1 kilo leafy molokhia, washed and well drained
- 5 heads garlic, pounded
- 4 cups finely chopped fresh coriander
- 1 chicken, boiled with aromatics (an onion, a cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, bay leaves)
- Hot pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon salt, or to taste
- 1/2 cup ghee
- 1 tablespoon dried coriander
- Lemon juice
Method
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- After cleaning the chicken, cut it up and place it in a pot. Cover it with water and set the pot over the heat.
- When the water comes to a boil, skim off any foam that rises to the surface, then add the aromatics. Reduce the heat, cover the pot, and leave the chicken for 2 hours over low heat until fully cooked.Timers: 120 min
- Remove the skin from the chicken pieces, then shred the meat into small pieces after removing and discarding the bones. Keep the chicken stock.
- Place the ghee in a pot over the heat, add the pounded garlic and chopped coriander, and stir for 2 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly.Timers: 2 min
- Add the well-drained molokhia leaves and stir with the coriander and garlic, stirring occasionally for 20 minutes.Timers: 20 min
- Add 5 cups of chicken stock to the molokhia in the pot, stir, then add the boiled chicken pieces, salt, dried coriander, and hot pepper. Stir and let it simmer for 1 hour until the molokhia leaves are cooked through.Timers: 60 min
- Finally, add the lemon juice to the pot and turn off the heat.
- Serve the molokhia with fluffy rice with vermicelli.
- Fafi nohmn tahini
- For more ways to make molokhia, here is Molokhia with Tomato
- From Fafi's recipes, here is also Fried Kibbeh
Recipe tags
Soups and stewsEgyptianGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Molokhia with Tomato
- Fried Kibbeh
