How to make love soup, its components and benefits
It is famous for cooking love soup in Saudi Arabia, especially on the breakfast table in the month of Ramadan. This soup consists of many nutrients rich in health benefits, such as barley grains, meat and some spices that characterize this soup. Below we will show you how to prepare this delicious dish.
Hijazi Love Soup
Here is a simple recipe for this soup:
Setting time 30 minute
cooking time 180 minute
4 Individuals
Ingredients
- Preparing a bundle of Hijazi love soup spices, by cracking some types of spices, which are shiba, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, galangal, black pepper, cumin, coriander, dry lemon and bay leaf.
- Put half a spoonful of each spice in a small piece of cheesecloth, for example, and tie it well to make what is called a packet of spices.
- 2 cups crushed beans (barley grains).
- 2 cups of tomato juice.
- Half a kilo of meat cut into cubes.
- Hot water as needed.
Preparation steps
- In a deep pot suitable for cooking soup, put the boiling water with the crushed beans and the packet of spices and leave them for an hour.
- Put the meat after an hour, then add a chicken stock cube, and in the case of adding a stock cube, there is no need to add salt.
- Add tomato juice in the last step after the meat is cooked.
- Now the soup is ready to serve.
red love soup
Here, we show you another way to prepare the soup of love:
Setting time 20 minute
cooking time 30 minute
4 Individuals
Ingredients
- 5 cups of water.
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
- One large red onion, chopped.
- Juice of 2 tomatoes.
- Half a kilo of lamb with the bone.
- Tomato sauce (optional).
- Spice soup of love.
- Salt and Pepper.
- Half a cup of crushed love.
How to prepare
- In a pressure cooker, put the onions with the oil, until the onions change color to golden.
- Add meat.
- Put tomato juice and add tomato sauce as desired.
- Add water, love spices and salt.
- Add half a cup of crushed love.
- Leave the ingredients to simmer for about half an hour.
- Remove the meat from the soup, remove it from the bone, and then add it to the soup again to present the recipe.
Soup of love benefits
Love soup consists mainly of barley grains and barley is one of the types of whole grains, which is a rich source of fiber, minerals and vitamins, which provide the body with many health benefits, and we mention the following:
1. Weight control
Barley grains contain a rich percentage of fiber, which helps to feel full for a long time, which helps in losing weight.
2. Promote digestive health
Barley grains contain a rich percentage of insoluble fiber, and this type of fiber helps to speed up the movement of the intestines, which helps to resist constipation and improve digestion.
3. Promote heart health
These grains contain a nutrient called beta-glucan, which helps reduce harmful cholesterol in the body, and these grains also help lower blood pressure, which contributes to reducing the risk of heart disease.
After learning how to prepare the soup of love, we advise you to include this soup in your diet, because it is a soup rich in many nutrients beneficial to the body.
