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Silky Hummus
Silky, pourable hummus with far more tahini than most recipes dare, whipped for five minutes with ice water. Peeling…
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Lunch
Crispy Falafel
Made only from soaked dried chickpeas — never tinned, never cooked — so the outside shatters and the inside stays…
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Appetizers
Paneer Tikka
Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…
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Healthy
Chana Masala
A punchy North Indian chickpea curry, sour with amchur and tamarind and darkened by a long-fried onion base…
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Lunch
Chole Bhature
Punjab's great weekend breakfast: dark, tangy chickpeas served with balloon-like fried bread. The chana is blackened…
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Appetizers
Seekh Kebab
Spiced minced lamb moulded onto skewers and cooked over coals, kept juicy by fat, papaya paste and a rest in the…
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Lunch
Vada Pav
A spiced potato fritter in a soft bun with three chutneys and fried green chillies. Mumbai's street sandwich, sold…
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Healthy
Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl
Roasted vegetables, a grain, a pulse and something green in one bowl, held together by a tahini dressing loosened…
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Vegetable Pakoras
Onion, potato and spinach bound in a spiced gram flour batter and fried into craggy, shatteringly crisp clusters…
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Healthy
Egyptian Koshari
Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…
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Healthy
Harira Soup
The Moroccan soup traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan: lentils, chickpeas and tomato thickened with…
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Breakfast
Trinidadian Doubles
Two pieces of soft fried bara sandwiching curried chickpeas, with tamarind, cucumber chutney and pepper sauce…
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Lunch
Ash Reshteh
A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.
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Appetizers
Chickpea Socca
A single thick pancake of chickpea flour, olive oil and water, baked fierce in a heavy pan until the edges blister —…
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Healthy
Italian Chopped Salad
Salami, provolone, chickpeas and pepperoncini chopped small under a red wine vinaigrette sharp enough to stand up to…
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Quick Meals
Quick Chickpea Curry
A tin of chickpeas, a tin of tomatoes and a proper spice base, done in half an hour. The onions do not get twenty…
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Quick Meals
Smashed Chickpea Sandwich
Chickpeas crushed with tahini, lemon and capers into something with the texture of a tuna mayo but none of the fish…
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Appetizers
Chana Chaat
Chickpeas tossed with raw onion, tomato, chaat masala and tamarind, assembled in ten minutes and eaten within…
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Appetizers
Balila
Warm chickpeas in their own liquor with cumin, garlic and lemon. Sold from carts for breakfast and about as simple…
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Appetizers
Maghmour
Aubergine and chickpeas stewed down in tomato and garlic until everything collapses. Often called Lebanese moussaka…
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Appetizers
Hummus Beiruti
The rougher city version: chickpeas left coarse, cut through with parsley, chilli and pickle. Made to be eaten as a…
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Breakfast
Lablabi
Chickpeas in a cumin and garlic broth poured over torn stale bread, with a raw egg cracked in and stirred through…
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Lunch
Hlelem
A thick soup of hand-broken noodles, three kinds of bean and a lot of greens, red with harissa. Winter food from the…
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Breakfast
Bsissa
Roasted barley and chickpea flour with fennel and coriander seed, stirred into oil and water or milk. Eaten for…
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Dinner
Couscous Tunisien
Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. The…
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Dinner
Mermez
Lamb and chickpeas in a thin red broth with a lot of onion, poured over bread or couscous. The plainest of the…
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Dinner
Osbane
Sausage casings filled with rice, offal, herbs and a great deal of chard, simmered and then sliced into a stew. The…
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Dinner
Berkoukes
Hand-rolled semolina pearls the size of peppercorns, cooked in a lamb and vegetable broth. Larger than couscous…
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Dinner
Madfouna
Lamb and chard buried under a lid of dough and baked, so the meat steams in its own juices. Madfouna means buried…
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Appetizers
Panelle
Chickpea flour cooked into a paste, set flat, cut into squares and fried. Palermo eats them in a bread roll, which…
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Lunch
Pasta e Ceci
Chickpeas and broken pasta cooked into a thick soup with rosemary. Roman, cheap, and better than the sum of its…
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Appetizers
Farinata
A chickpea flour pancake baked screaming hot in a copper pan until the top blisters. Genoa eats it standing up, with…
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Appetizers
Fish Tikka
Firm white fish in a yoghurt and carom seed marinade, charred at the edges. Thirty-five minutes and no tandoor…
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Appetizers
Pani Puri
Hollow crisp spheres filled with spiced water, potato and chickpea, eaten whole in one go. India's most-loved street…
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Appetizers
Dhokla
A steamed savoury sponge of gram flour, sharp with lemon and sweet with a sugar tempering. Gujarat's teatime, and…
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Dinner
Shiro Wat
Toasted chickpea flour whisked into a spiced stew that thickens as you stir. On the table in half an hour.
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Breakfast
Fattet Hummus
Crisp torn bread under warm chickpeas under garlicky yoghurt, finished with browned butter and pine nuts. Assembled…
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Dinner
Paneer Tikka Masala
Paneer charred under a grill first, then folded into a tomato gravy. The char is what separates it from every other…
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Appetizers
Samosa Chaat
A samosa crushed under chickpea curry, yoghurt and three chutneys. Twenty-five minutes if the samosas are bought.
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Desserts
Mysore Pak
Gram flour cooked with ghee and sugar until it sets porous and melts on contact. Forty-five minutes, and the pour is…
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Desserts
Besan Ladoo
Gram flour roasted slowly in ghee until it smells of biscuits, then rolled into balls with sugar. Forty minutes…
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