🥣 Molokhia with Chicken

Green soup that somehow tastes like a hug from your grandma.

• 1hTotal time
• 🍳 I can cook a littleDifficulty
• 480kcal
• 4Portions

• 🍗 Chicken
• 🍲 Soup
• 🇪🇬 Egyptian
• 🤗 Comfort food

Ingredients

• 500g fresh or frozen molokhia leaves, finely chopped
• Half a chicken, cut up, or 4 chicken thighs
• 6 cups chicken stock
• 6 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 tbsp dried ground coriander
• 1 tbsp ghee or oil
• Salt and black pepper
• Egyptian flatbread and rice, to serve

How to make it

1. Boil the chicken in water with an onion and a bay leaf until cooked; keep the stock.
2. Add the chopped molokhia to the hot stock and simmer gently for 10 minutes.
3. In a small pan, fry the garlic and dried coriander in ghee until fragrant.
4. Pour the garlic tarna over the molokhia, stir well and let it simmer a few more minutes.
5. Serve the molokhia alongside the boiled chicken with white rice.