levantine · soup
Lamb and freekeh soup
A complete soup-meal: lamb cooked until very tender, freekeh that drinks the broth.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 110 min
- Servings
- 4
- Difficulty
- easy
Steps
- 01
Lamb broth
90 minCover the lamb with 1.8 L cold water, bring to a boil, skim, simmer covered 90 minutes until very tender.
- 02
Add freekeh
20 minStir in the rinsed freekeh and the ghee. Cook 20 more minutes until the freekeh is plump.
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