Lablabi – a popular Tunisian dish

Lablabi – a popular Tunisian dish
The Tunisian lablabi is a popular dish made from chick peas, bread and a very flavorful cumin soup.
The bread is cut into cubes and served in bowls.
It is watered by chickpeas cooked in water then seasoned and mixed. We can then add capers, olives, tuna or egg softened hull.
Let’s look now how to prepare the Lablabi:
Instructions
  1. Soak the chickpeas overnight, 100 gr is enough for two people.
  2. The next day, cook them in 2 liters of water; you can add baking soda to make them tender very quickly! (This is completely optional)
  3. In a fairly deep bowl, crumble stale bread.
  4. Sprinkle the crumbs with chickpeas cooking water, let the bread soak but not too much
  5. Put the chickpeas in a bowl and drizzle with harissa
  6. In a little water, put half a teaspoon of chopped garlic, 1 teaspoon of ground cumin and half a teaspoon of salt (to taste)
  7. Break a cooked egg on top of everything, to cook the egg for lablabi:
  8. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan, remove from heat, and soak the egg for 5 minutes, you will get an egg that’s not overcooked, which is perfect for the lablabi, and finish with a drizzle of olive oil, you can add crumbled canned tuna, capers…
  9. And that’s how it is served in Tunisia:
    Accompanied by olive oil, black olives, red onions, cut into thin strip.

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