Molokhia (Corchorus olitorius), also called jute mallow, Jew's mallow or Egyptian spinach, is the tender leaf of an annual jute plant, eaten across Egypt, the Levant, North and East Africa and the Caribbean as a thickening, distinctly mucilaginous soup green. Chopped very fine and simmered, the leaves release a soft, slippery, okra-like body that turns a pot of stock into the smooth, deep-green stew that shares the plant's name — the national comfort dish of Egypt, where the finished molokhia is finished with a sizzling garlic-and-coriander tempering and ladled over rice or bread with chicken, rabbit or fish.