🍲 Hilbah (Fenugreek Condiment)

Name: Hilbah (Fenugreek Condiment)
Ingredients: 3 tbsp ground fenugreek seeds; 1 cup water; Coriander leaves, finely chopped; Leeks, chopped; 1 lemon or citric acid to taste; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbsp zḥug (hot sauce made from red peppers, garlic, coriander leaves, etc.); Grated tomato (optional)

Sauces & Condiments · 8 ingredients · 5 steps

Hilbah, (Arabic: حلبة) also spelled holbah, is a condiment or dollop made from ground fenugreek seeds. It is typically consumed with a morsel of bread (sop), or added as flavoring to hot soups. Its preparation is mostly found in Yemen, Israel and other Middle-Eastern countries.

This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

3 tbsp ground fenugreek seeds
1 cup water
Coriander leaves, finely chopped
Leeks, chopped
1 lemon or citric acid to taste
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp zḥug (hot sauce made from red peppers, garlic, coriander leaves, etc.)
Grated tomato (optional)

Method

Soak ground fenugreek in the water for 3 hours until expanded.
Beat with a spatula until paste becomes light and frothy. Gradually add more water if necessary.
Mix in coriander leaves and leeks.
Mix in salt, lemon juice, and zḥug.
Mix in grated tomato if using.

Where this came from. Adapted from Hilbah (Fenugreek Condiment) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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