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Chick Peas with Garlic Mousseline

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Chick peas cooked with bacon, ham, a sofregit onion + tomato base. Finished with garlic + eggs + oil blended and poured over top and broiled to crisp and puff up. Can be made vegan by leaving out meat and replacing eggs with chick pea water and nutritional yeast.

Ingredients

  • 60g / 2oz thick-cut bacon, cut into 1cm cubes
  • 30g / 1oz cured ham, diced
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 1 tomato, seeded and grated
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 1/2 lbs chick peas, cooked
  • salt and pepper
  • Garlic Mousseline
  • See page 28

Instructions

  1. 1
    Fry the meat until lightly browned in an oven safe pan or cassola. Remove and keep oils in pan.
  2. 2
    Add additional olive oil and make a sofregit (see page 33) from the onions, tomato, and garlic.
  3. 3
    Add the meat and cooked (or canned) chick peas, mix well, and cook until heated through. Salt and pepper to taste.
  4. 4
    Flatten the mixture and pour the Garlic Mouselline on top.
  5. 5
    Brown under broiler until puffed up and lightly browned.
Category
Dinner

Recipe Attribution

Catalan Cuisine

by Colman Andrews

Grub Street • 9781898697763

Page 66