Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Spiced chickpea stew
Berbere's cousin with cumin and chili. A weeknight wat on canned chickpeas.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 30 min
easyWhy tonight. Berbere's cousin with cumin and chili. A weeknight wat on canned chickpeas.
What it needs
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- chickpeas
- tomato
- cumin
- chili flakes
- onion
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: ginger.
Method
- Onion cooked genuinely soft and sweet first, then the spices bloomed in the fat for thirty seconds.
- Tomato cooked down hard until it darkens, before the chickpeas go anywhere near it.
- Chickpeas turned through the sauce, then thirty minutes at a low simmer so they take it on.
- Mash a spoonful against the pot for body. Ginger and lime at the end.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- chickpeas
- Nutty and sturdy, and they take on whatever they are cooked in rather than adding much of their own.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- cumin
- Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
- chili flakes
- Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
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