This hearty and healthy soup is delicately flavored with cumin and ginger and can be eaten as an entrée or teamed with crusty bread or plain boiled rice as a whole meal.
Ingredients:
- 2 bunches spinach
- 500 gms minced beef
- 2 tbsps oil
- 2 tsps cumin seeds
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 large onions chopped fine
- 2 large tomatoes chopped fine
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1 litre beef stock
- Salt to taste
- Lime juice to garnish
Preparation:
- Wash and drain the spinach and keep aside.
- In a pressure cooker heat the oil on a medium flame and add the cumin seeds.
- When the cumin seeds splutter, add the grated ginger and sauté for a minute.
- Add the onions and sauté till they are soft.
- Add the tomatoes, chilli powder, pepper and minced meat. Stir and allow the meat to brown.
- When the meat has browned, add the spinach and beef stock and cover the pressure cooker. Turn the flame to high.
- When the pressure cooker whistles the first time, turn the flame down to a simmer and allow to cook till the whistle blows twice.
- Turn off the flame, release the pressure from the cooker and serve out the soup. Garnish with a squeeze of lime.
