Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Chickpeas stewed with chili and garlic
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Ethiopian chickpea stew without berbere in a box: ground chickpeas, onion, chili, oil. It should be thick enough for injera, or pita. Don't make hummus and heat it.
The sheet · 4 bowls · 30 min
easyWhy tonight. Ethiopian chickpea stew without berbere in a box: ground chickpeas, onion, chili, oil. It should be thick enough for injera, or pita. Don't make hummus and heat it.
What it needs
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- chickpeas
- onion
- garlic
- chili flakes
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: tomato paste.
Method
- Onion cooked in a lot of olive oil until deeply browned. Twenty minutes. Undercooked onion is why the finished pot tastes thin.
- Garlic and chili in, then the chickpeas with a good amount of their liquid.
- Simmer and crush about half of them against the pot until it thickens to a loose purée.
- Salt hard, finish with raw oil, and eat it with bread. It is better with a spoonful of the oil poured over rather than stirred in.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Knife skillsHow To Dice OnionsAmerica's Test KitchenWalks through the claw grip and the two cuts that turn a whole onion into an even dice.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
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.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- 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.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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