🇹🇳 Tunisia cuisine · #3

Lablabi

Lablabi
Time60 min
Serves4
Ingredients11

A humble chickpea soup with garlic, cumin and harissa, ladled over stale bread and topped with egg, tuna and olive oil.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Boil the chickpeas with garlic and salt until very tender.
  2. Put torn bread in bowls.
  3. Ladle the hot chickpeas and broth over the bread.
  4. Add cumin, harissa, oil, tuna and capers.
  5. Crack a raw or soft-boiled egg into each bowl and stir quickly.
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