Dinner Idea: Red Spinach Soup, Boiled Egg, and Couscous

Dinner idea: Red spinach soup, boiled egg, couscous, and an orange - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti / Acik Mdy

Hi, how are you today? Today I am gonna share one of our dinner menus. Who's like soup? I love soup especially veggies soup. I like any kind of veggies. How about you? Let's check it out, it easy, simple, and tasty soup. 

Ingredient:

• 1 pack of red spinach
• 1/2 or 1/4 of carrot - cut it
• handful cherry tomatoes
• Little a bit bell pepper - I use yellow bell pepper
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 1 - 2 gram of garlic powder
• 21/5 - 3 gram of onion powder
• 1 gram salt - it's your choice
• 1- 2 gram of black pepper powder
• 800 ml of water
• 110 gram of couscous (2 people) - I use Tesco couscous

Tesco couscous - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti / Acik Mdy

• 170 ml water for the couscous
• 2 egg - I always choose low cholesterol egg or carrot egg
• 1 - 2 1/2 gram of multipurpose seasoning - to give couscous taste
• 1 gram of coriander leaf - for couscous

These are what you do:

• Boil 170 ml of water. Pour into couscous. Let the water fully absorb
• Add multipurpose seasoning and coriander leaf, mix them with couscous
• Now cook the soup, Pour 800 ml of water in a pot. Cook the soup in medium-low flame
• Add the chicken stock cube, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper powder. Bring it to boil
• Add carrot first, let it cook for about 2 minutes
• Add the red spinach, bell pepper, and cherry tomatoes. Mix them well, cook for about 2-3 minutes
• While cooking the soup you can boil the egg. Boil the egg for about 15-25 minutes. But it's optional

Prepare dinner:

• Place the couscous first
• Place the boiled egg, cut in half

Couscous with coriander leaf, boiled egg - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti / Acik Mdy

• Pour soup in a bowl. Add fried shallot on top of it

Red spinach soup with fried shallot on top of it - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti / Acik Mdy

• Cut an orange - it's optional because you can choose any kind of fruit that you want to eat with your dinner
• Your dinner is ready

Make Lemon mint tea:

• Cut 1 lemon into a slice - technically each bottle contain a half of lemon
• Some mint leaves - sometimes I harvest my mint plant. Yes I grow a mint plant in my "garden"😊 I wish I could grow a lemon plant in my corridor 😁
• I make 2 bottles, I fill each bottle with 700 ml of water
• Put in the fridge whole night
• You can drink in the next morning

Lemon mint tea - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti / Acik Mdy

What do you think, I like red spinach soup, it simple, easy, yet tasty! 😋 See you in another article, bye for now ✋😊

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