When I first got married my husband would only have one type of soup in Ramadan.  Lentil soup made the traditional Arabic way. Don’t get me wrong, I love that lentil soup but not enough to have it every day for 30 days! I would make him some lentil soup and make myself another type of soup. It took a couple of years for him to admit that despite his love for lentil soup, change was good and refreshing. Ever since then I try to add new soups to our Ramadan list every year and this year this creamy spinach soup made the cut.

I am particularly happy with it because for the longest time I would not get within 10 feet of anything that contained spinach. I was never a picky eater but there was one thing I was not willing to eat in any shape or form and that was spinach. My mother tried time and again to get me to try spinach but I never did (and then I blame my husband for not trying new things lol). That all changed when I had kids. I couldn’t tell my kids to try everything at least once if I wasn’t willing to do that myself. I started looking for recipes that could help me like spinach, things that were new and interesting. After a few attempts I found a recipe that worked for me. A recipe that made me love spinach. After that I started using it in soups, pastries and even in desserts!

This spinach soup is creamy as the name implies without being overly rich. Served with a drizzle of pomegranate molasses or lemon juice, it is refreshing. The tang perfectly balances the creaminess. Add crunch from a few toasted croutons and you have a new family favorite.

When Lubna asked me to do a guest post on her blog, yummy food featuring one of my favorite Ramadan recipes or a recipe that has special meaning to me, I knew exactly that this soup was going to be the one.

Lubna the talented lady behind yummy food is a science student turned into a management graduate finally ending up in the kitchen, experimenting and experiencing the joys of cooking…..along with enjoying her mommyhood being mom to a cute little toddler…who most of the times keeps her on her toes…..