astray recipes: Spanish-jewish dandelion soup

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Yield: 10 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
¼ pounds	Dried chick-peas [garbanzos]
¼ pounds	Dried white beans
	Water for soaking
½ pounds	Corned beef [I can't tell if the author meant corned-beef as in brisket or not, prolly any soup meat would do]
2 tablespoons	Cooking oil
¼ pounds	Garlic beef sausage
8 cups	Water
2	Cloves garlic; finely chopped
2	Tomatoes; chopped
1½ teaspoon	Tsp. ground cumin
2	Potatoes; peeled and diced
½ pounds	Chopped dandelion greens or spinach
½ cup	Margarine [I'd use only 2 or 3 tbsp.]
1 cup	Croutons

>From the rfcj newsgroup ...

Source: The Joys of Jewish Cooking" by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet You can use spinach instead of dandelions if you have no lawn.

Soak chick-peas and beans overnight in water. Drain. In a large pot saute beef in oil and add sausage. Saute until cooked.

Remove from pot and slice sausage.

Add rest of ingredients to pot, except for dandelion greens, margarine, and croutons. Simmer 3 hours or until chick-peas and beans are tender.

Melt margarine in a skillet, add meats and greens on high heat. Stir, toss greens well until wilted. Add with meats to soup. [at this point, I'd chill the soup and remove the excess fat cap, or skim soup carefully, or do the paper towel trick] Serve with crisp croutons.

From: Brian Mailman <bmailman@...> Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #230 by jefffree@... on Aug 12, 1997

spanish-jewish dandelion soup