It is well known that ancient Egyptian food is one of the historical bases of the Mediterranean Diet. Not only did they enjoy the rich offer of foods thanks to the fertile lands of the Nile, but the Egyptians also produced different foods with effort and tenacity that combined accounted for a perfect balanced base of what is considered a healthy diet. This is the reason they had a heavy reliance on fruits, vegetables and legumes. Of course, some of which appear in this week\u2019s hearty soup were greatly loved in ancient Egypt, such as the leek and garlic, but also the zucchini. There are numerous archaeological evidence attesting to the influence of garlic as a staple in the Egyptian diet. In fact, we know that only the pharaohs used it to ward off the negative forces of evil spirits, but is believed that the workers that built the magnificent and amazing pyramid, tombs of kings, ate mostly garlic, radishes and onions. Its importance as a miraculous and fortifying food was unmistakable. But leaving aside onions and radishes, leeks also belonging to the same family of vegetables were consumed regularly. Perhaps these were eaten raw with bread or some other condiment, which zucchini, in turn, could have been a part of other roasted or boiled dishes (along with pumpkin). This simple soup is just an extension of a culinary prototype that might well be inherited from those ancient Mediterranean people.<\/p>\n
4 servings<\/p>\n
1 liter chicken stock
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t2 medium potatoes
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t2 medium zucchinis
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t2 leeks
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t1 piece of celery with leaves
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t2 garlic cloves
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t1 tbsp fresh mint
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t1 tsp sugar
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t ground white pepper
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t salt\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Peel the potatoes, rinse and dice them. Wash the zucchini and cut into slices, without peeling. Remove the filaments and green leaves of the leeks, slice, wash and drain. Cut the celery. Peel and chop the garlic.
\nBring the broth to a boil in a saucepan and add the potatoes, leeks, celery, garlic, salt and a pinch of ground white pepper.
\nAdd the lemon juice and sugar and simmer the broth for about 20 minutes.
\nAdd the zucchini and mint and cook for 15 more minutes.
\nServe the soup hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","recipe_category":[],"class_list":["post-1287","cp_recipe","type-cp_recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cooked_recipe\/1287\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cooked_recipe\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cp_recipe\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cp_recipe_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietamediterranea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe_category\/?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}