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Molokhia with Chicken

Jute leaves cooked into a green soup with garlic and coriander, poured over rice with the chicken it was made from.

Molokhia with Chicken, plated and ready to serve
Serves
6
Total time
75 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$6.97

Ingredients

  • 4 lb whole chicken
  • 28 oz molokhia (jute leaves), frozen
  • 8 clove garlic
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 3 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 2 cup long grain white rice
  • 1 lemon

Method

  1. Simmer the chicken with the halved onion and bay leaves in water to cover for 45 minutes, skimming the foam off the top as it rises.

  2. Lift the chicken out and keep it warm. Strain the broth; you need about six cups and it should taste like something on its own.

  3. Bring the broth back to a simmer and stir in the frozen molokhia. Break it up as it thaws and let it cook 10 minutes. Do not let it boil hard or it separates.

  4. Crush the garlic with the chopped cilantro and a pinch of salt to a rough paste.

  5. Fry that paste in the butter for about 40 seconds, until the garlic smells sweet rather than raw. It will spit.

  6. Pour the whole thing into the pot and clap the lid on straight away. That noise is the point of the dish.

  7. Cook the rice, pull the chicken into large pieces, and serve the molokhia ladled over rice with lemon alongside.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
Egypt‏٩١٢٫٠١ ج.م.‏‏١٥٢٫٠٠ ج.م.‏9 of 9 ingredients
Australia$53.84$8.978 of 9 ingredients
United States$41.80$6.977 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£17.85£2.987 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$56.50$9.427 of 9 ingredients
Canada$83.76$13.967 of 9 ingredients
Spain16,03 €2,67 €7 of 9 ingredients
Germany35,79 €5,97 €7 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$472.03$78.677 of 9 ingredients
Greece23,18 €*3,86 €6 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 16,52*€ 2,756 of 9 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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