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Hamud – Iraqi Sour Soup with Vegetables and Chickpeas
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Hamud – Iraqi Sour Soup with Vegetables and Chickpeas – Pareve version

A traditional Iraqi sweet-and-sour soup with chickpeas, tomatoes and herbs Pareve version: Vegetable stock.

⏱ 2 hr 25 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free
Versions:Original🌱 Vegan⚖ Pareve

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Stock

  1. 1
    Cover the bones with water in a large pot and bring to a boil. Skim off the foam that floats to the top with a spoon.
    StoveLarge pot
    💡Skim off the foam that rises at the start of cooking: it's proteins that cloud the stock.
  2. 2
    Add the onion and carrot.
  3. 3
    Turn down to low and simmer' gently' 2 hours, until the stock is rich.
    ⚙ SimmeringStove
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  4. 4
    Strain through a fine sieve into a clean pot.
    Fine sieveLarge pot

To assemble

  1. 5
    Add the chickpeas, tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, turmeric and cumin to the strained stock and bring to a boil.
    Stove
  2. 6
    Turn down the heat and simmer 20 minutes, until the stock takes on the flavor of the spices.
    ⚙ SimmeringStove
  3. 7
    Stir in the lemon juice, sugar, salt and black pepper. Taste: the soup should be sweet-and-sour. Adjust to taste.
    💡Balance at the end, once the flavors have come together: add sour, sweet and salty a little at a time, tasting between additions.
  4. 8
    Serve hot in bowls, and sprinkle the parsley and cilantro on top.
206calories
12 gprotein
23 gcarbs
6 gfat
● protein 25%● carbs 49%● fat 26%

Per serving (752 g), of 4 servings

For the Stock · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Large pot · Also works: Pot (Cook in two batches)
  • Fine sieve · Also works: Cheesecloth (Cheesecloth over a sieve) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Colander (Lets more through)

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🧩 Built from…

Bone Stock → Sour Soup

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