Lablabi - Tunisian Chickpea Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups dried garbanzo beans or 2 cups canned chick-peas
• 4 -6 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon harissa
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• salt, to taste
• 1 lemon, juice of
• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 slices of day-old bread, preferably day-old french bread, broken into small pieces

Recipe

• 1 wash chickpeas and soak overnight (if using dried).
• 2 if desired, rinse them again. in a large soup pot, cover chickpeas with water, bring to a boil, and cook until tender (ten to twenty minutes). — or start with two pounds of canned chick peas, drained and rinsed, and heated in four cups of water.
• 3 add garlic, harissa sauce, ground cumin, and salt. simmer for ten minutes. immediately before serving: add lemon juice, olive oil, and bread crumbs. serve hot.