Tag: soup
Bessara
Bessara
Bessara is Moroccan puréed fava beans served 2 ways: as a soup or as a dip. If the puréed fava beans are going to be thin using all of the bean stock, it will then be a soup. If you want the purée to be thick, use only half of the reserved bean stock. Then it will be a dip served with crusty bread. Both deserve to be drizzled with olive oil, a dollop of harissa, and lightly crushed cumin seeds as condiments.
Equipment
- immersion blender
Ingredients
- 28 oz canned fava beans peeled; bean broth saved
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 8 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tsp paprika
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
Condiments and Garnishes
- olive oil
- harissa
- crushed cumin seeds
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a pot over medium heat. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Turn off the heat. Purée with an immersion blender.
Corned Beef Nilaga
Corned Beef Nilaga
Here is another Filipino recipe that you wouldn’t find on a menu at a restaurant. Corned beef nilaga is the Pinoy take on the classic New England boiled dinner: corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes. Instead of boiling a corned beef brisket for hours on end, canned chunky corned beef is used. This hearty soup is ready in 15 minutes; tasting like it took all day to cook.
Ingredients
- 4 cups beef stock
- 1 small onion quartered
- 1 large potato peeled and cubed
- 1/2 tsp black peppercorns crushed
- 12 green beans ends trimmed
- 12 oz canned corned beef chunky
- 1/4 green cabbage
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Bring a pot of beef stock to a boil. Add the onions, potatoes, and peppercorns. Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add in the green beans. Simmer for 2 minutes.
- Add in the cabbage and corned beef. Cook for 3 minutes.
- Season with salt.
Tilapia Stew
Tilapia Stew
Cold outside? Stuffed up? This tilapia stew is exactly what you need. The soup is full of napa cabbage, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger with a sour and spicy broth flavored with lime juice, bird’s eye chilies, cumin, and mustard seeds. The soup is rounded out with tilapia for aquatic protein. It all comes together in one pot; ready in 30 minutes. Garnish with chopped herbs and more bird’s eye chilies if you want more heat.
Ingredients
- vegetable oil
- 1 medium white onion chopped
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tbsp ginger grated
- 2 red bird’s eye chilies finely chopped
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 lbs tilapia fillets
- 4 roma tomatoes diced
- 1 small napa cabbage chopped
- 2 limes juiced
- 8 cups water
- salt to taste
Garnish
- parsley chopped
- cilantro chopped
- red bird’s eye chilies finely chopped
Instructions
- Heat up the oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Sauté the onions for 5 minutes.
- Add in the garlic, ginger, cumin, mustard seeds, pepper, and chilies.
- Add in the tilapia, tomatoes, napa cabbage, lime juice, water, and salt.
- Simmer for 20 minutes until the tilapia fillets flake in the soup.
