Lebanese Summer Wheat and Dried Corn Soup with Yogurt

This terrific recipe comes from my friend Houston-based Elie Nassar, who grew up in a small village in northern Lebanon and loves to talk about the “comfort food” of his childhood:

“My grandmother, Selwa, used to make this soup, called m’tabla, in summer, ” Elie told me, “a cold version of the hot thick porridge called amhi’ah is prepared in winter. She would thin the soup with plain yogurt and salt along with some ice cubes so the yog