Yeadengware Shorba

Recipe Description

Ethiopian Kidney Bean Soup

Ingredients

  • 1½ cup kidney beans soaked in
  • 4 cup water overnight (or two 15-oz cans kidney beans drained and rinsed)
  • 6 cup water
  • 1 small leek chopped
  • 1 small carrot peeled, chopped
  • 3 cup vegetable stock|vegetable or beef stock
  • salt to taste
  • 1 small potato peeled, chopped
  • 2 tbsp pastina - (small soup pasta) (or you can break up soup noodles)

Directions

  1. Put soaked kidney beans in a large saucepan with 6 cups of water, bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for an hour or so, until they are done.
  2. If you are using canned kidney beans, you can skip the step of simmering the kidney beans|beans for an hour.
  3. Add the leek, carrots, stock, and salt and cook for about 10 minutes.
  4. Add the potatoes and pastina, bring quickly to a boil, then reduce heat and cook for 15 more minutes.
  5. Serve hot with injera, if you can find it - or with pita bread.
  6. Serve hot to 4 as a first course or, with traditional injera bread torn into it, as a light meal.
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