Lebanese Food Recipes

Serves 5:

• 1 lb. meat with bnes
• 1 cup cracked wheat
• 4 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 16 cups of water
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1/2 tablespoon cumin
• 10 pepper corns
• 1 cinnamon bark, broken into pieces
• 1/2 tablespoon dried coriander, ground
• 1 tablespoon salt or to taste

Pick over the wheat and wash well.  Soak in water overnight.  Place all the spicesin a bouquet garni or a piece of gauze tied to form a sac.  Strain the wheat and place in a pot with the meat over low heat.  Bring toboil and add the bouquet garni.  Reduce the heat and let cook for 40 minutes.  Remove the meat and bouquet garni.  Put the broth in a blender and blend then strain.  Add the meat, tomato, oil and salt to the wheat soup and let cook gently for 20 minutes.  Serve hot.