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Shaghria bi Laban wa Snobar

People used to make 1-inch-long vermicelli by rolling tiny pieces of dough between their fingers. Make it by breaking dry vermicelli in your hand.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 4

Ingredients

14 ounces dry vermicelli, broken with your hand into 1-inch pieces
2 chicken bouillon cubes
Salt
2 cups plain whole-milk yogurt, at room temperature
2 or 3 cloves garlic, crushed (optional)
2/3 cup pine nuts
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Cook the vermicelli in plenty of boiling water with the crumbled bouillon cubes until just tender, then drain. You may not need to add salt to the water, because of the saltiness of the cubes.

    Step 2

    For the sauce, mix the yogurt with the garlic and a little salt.

    Step 3

    For the topping, fry the pine nuts in the oil, shaking the pan, until lightly colored all over.

    Step 4

    Serve the vermicelli with the yogurt poured over and sprinkled with the pine nuts.

  2. Variation

    Step 5

    Instead of the pine nuts, heat 4 tablespoons olive oil with 2 teaspoons paprika and dribble over the yogurt.

Cover of Claudia Roden's The New Book of Middle Easter Food, featuring a blue filigree bowl filled with Meyer lemons and sprigs of mint.
Reprinted with permission from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, copyright © 2000 by Claudia Roden, published by Knopf. Buy the full book on Amazon or Bookshop.
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