Rishta (Fresh Cut Noodle Stew with Meat and Lentils)
Origin: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, 1226
Ingredients
- fatty meat
- cinnamon
- salt
- handful peeled chickpeas
- lentils
- rishta noodles
Instructions
- Cover medium-cut fatty meat with water; add a cinnamon stick, a little salt, a handful of peeled chickpeas and half as much lentils; boil until done.
- Add more water and boil hard.
- Add rishta (dough kneaded, rolled thin and cut into narrow strips four fingers long); cook until it sets smooth, rest on low fire an hour, then lift off.