Chickpea Spread

Ingredients

• 250 g dried chickpeas
• 3 Garlic cloves
• Salt
• 1 red chili pepper
• 2 stalks coriander
• 1 lemon
• 50 g tahini (sesame paste)
• 0.25 tsp cumin
• 4 tbsp olive oil

Instructions

1. 1.

   Soak chickpeas in plenty of water overnight.

2. 2.

   Drain soaking water. Cover chickpeas with water and simmer for about 40 minutes until tender. Then drain into a sieve and rinse under cold water.

3. 3.

   While the chickpeas cook, peel, chop and grate garlic finely with salt in a mortar.

4. 4.

   Wash, deseed and finely chop the chili pepper. Wash coriander, shake dry and chop the leaves. Squeeze the lemon juice.

5. 5.

   Blend the chickpeas and mix with garlic, chili pepper, tahini paste, lemon juice to taste, cumin and oil. Blend again, season with salt and cover for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Sprinkle with coriander before serving.