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Ingredients
- 500 gm shin of beef
- 200 gm dry broad beans, soaked overnight
- 2 x onions, finely minced
- 2 x tomatoes, peeled and diced
- 200 gm courgettes, minced
- 4 Tbsp. vegetable oil
- 1 tsp mild paprika
- 1 sm bunch of fresh coriander, minced
- 200 gm home-made or possibly ought fresh pasta (see below) salt pepper
- 200 gm plain flour
- 60 gm yeast, fresh or possibly dry hot water
Method
- My mother still prepares her own fresh pasta for boketof.
- The night before making the soup she combines the flour, yeast and water in a large bowl and then transfers it to working surface where she kneads the dough till the mix is smooth and elastic.
- Once which is done, she puts it back in a bowl that she covers with a tea-towel and allows the dough to rise for two hrs.
- When it has doubled in size, she takes a tray covered with a clean tea-towel and starts to shape the pasta, making spaghetti-like strands about 2 inches long but roughly three times thicker than ordinary spaghetti.
- She lays them out one by one on the tray, then covers them again with another tea-towel and leaves them overnight.
- The following morning the pasta strands are dry sufficient to put them in the soup.
- Nowadays, of course, few of us find the time to make fresh pasta and most people buy it ready-made.
- To make the soup she heats the oil in a large, heavy pan over a medium heat and fries the meat.
- To which she adds the onions, tomatoes, liquid removed broad beans, paprika and about 4 pints of water.
- After 30 min she reduces the heat and allows the dish to cook gently for 2 hrs.
- 10 min before the end of the cooking she seasons the soup with salt and pepper and then adds the pasta and the courgettes.
- make sure there is sufficient liquid in the pan because, after all, this is a soup.
- If you need more water, always add in cool water.
- She adds the coriander immediately before serving.
- To make the soup which little bit more special, she always puts a small dish of harissa on the table for those of us who like a dash of chilli.
- preparation / cooking: 30 min for the pasta, 30 min for the soup / 2 hrs 30 min
- country: Morocco