HOW TO COOK "XO'RDA" (FASTING SOUP WITH RICE AND VEGETABLES)

            2 turnips, 2 carrots, 2 onions, 1 cup of rice, 0.5 bunch of greens (cilantro or dill), salt and pepper - to taste.

Cut into cubes peeled turnips and carrots. Chop the onion as rings. All this put into a saucepan, pour cold water and simmer for 35-40 minutes. Put the washed rice (or ground rice) and bring to ready. Salt and add pepper.

Before serving, pour into kosa (large bowl 0.5 l). Sprinkle with chopped greens. Dilute qatiq (kefir) or serve up qatiq separately.

This soup is prepared in the absence of appetite, and malaise, while colds. With sprinkled ground (black or red) peppers the soup is used as a diaphoretic.