Recipe for Msmnen and Lentil Soup

Msmnen (Those devilish fried pancakes I told you about…)

Ingredients:
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt
3 cup of wheat flour
1 cup of cake flour
1 egg
1 cup milk
6 cubes sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 liter
1 tbl Baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Steps:
Dissolve sugar into 1/2 liter of warm water
Mix all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and slowly add warm water and sugar solution. Keep adding water until you can knead the mixture.
Knead dough for 5 minutes...basically until you feel like you can't knead anynmore!
Melt Butter and mix it with vegetable oil in small bowl
Squeeze dough into small balls…dip into butter/veggie oil mixture and smooth the oil along the seam in the dough from where it was squeezed
Place on baking sheet
Flatten balls into a thin pancake – spread with oil/butter mixture…fold pancake into three section (like a legal letter), then fold into third again until it looks like a square.
Heat skillet w/ vegetable oil
Flatten sqare dough down into larger square…add more butter
Fry in pan until it’s golden brown (both sides)

Hug your arteries later….enjoy now.

Lentil Soup

3 cups kilo lentils (soak for 20 mins. In hot water)
1 small yellow onion
4 cloves garlic
1/2 cup of mixed cilantro/parsley
1 tsp powdered cumin
1 tsp powdered paprika
1/2 tsp powdered ginger
pinch of black pepper
1/2 cup veggie oil
1 red tomato
1 small can tomato paste
1 cube saffron
1/2 cup mixed cooking and olive oil
1 cube chicken bouillon
1 small can of tomato paste
1/2 tsp salt
4 cups water

On a large grater, grate tomato (first cut into quarters) to remove the skin and then grate onion (or chop finely)…put into large round bowl.
Spoon in 1/4 cup parsley/cilantro Put 4 cloves into garlic press.
Add all spices and mix
Add oil
Put ingredients into a medium sized pot on the stove
Simmer and stir
Strain water from lentils and add to pot
Add 4 cups water. Cover for 45 mins. On medium/low until sauce thickens. Add carrots if you wish.

ENJOY!!!