Rishta (Fresh Cut Noodle Stew with Meat and Lentils)

Origin: Baghdad, Iraq

Source: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, 1226

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 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.
  2. Add more water and boil hard.
  3. 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.

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