Iraqi Pomegranate Soup - (Shorbat Rumman)

Ingredients

• water
  8 cups
• lamb shanks (or other lesser cuts of lamb and bone)
  1 lb
• yellow split peas
  ½ cup
• chopped onion
  1 cup
• beets with green tops
  3 unit
• rice
  ½ cup
• bunch scallions sliced well down into the green
  1 unit
• sugar
  2 tbsp
• lime juice
  3 tbsp
• parsley
  ½ cup
• pomegranate concentrate - (called "molasses" or "paste") <ref>Or substitute 1 cup pomegranate juice made by rolling an uncut fresh pomegranate hard underfoot on the floor

  then making an incision and "squeezing" it over a juicer.</ref>
  2 tbsp
• finely-chopped cilantro
  ¼ cup
• finely-chopped spinach
  2 cup