Name: Minestra di Esau (Lentil Soup with Meatballs)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons rendered chicken or goose fat or margarine; Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 2 carrots, peeled and finely chopped; About 4 cups water, or as needed; 1 pound ground beef; 2 celery stalks, finely chopped; ⅓ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; 1 cup tomato puree or sauce; 2 cups (about 1 pound) dried green or brown lentils; 3 large or 6 small onions, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cucina Ebraica

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

About

Here, Esau’s biblical “mess of pottage” is a delicious lentil soup enriched with little meatballs. In tracing this recipe, I found one version that called for 8 cups water and 1 cup lentils, another that specified 1 cup