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Fattet hummus
Layers of fried pita, hot chickpeas and garlic yoghurt with browned butter and pine nuts.
5 servings · 110 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 5 servings.
- 400 g Chickpeas, soaked overnight
- 3 piece Pita bread
- 700 ml Thick yoghurt
- 4 tbsp Tahini
- 5 clove Garlic
- 1 piece Lemon
- 80 g Ghee
- 60 g Pine nuts
- 30 g Parsley
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 200 ml Oil for frying
- to taste Salt
Method
- Boil the chickpeas in unsalted water for ninety minutes, until completely soft, and keep the water.
- Tear the pitas into two-finger pieces and fry them in oil to a golden crisp.
- Whisk the yoghurt with the tahini, crushed garlic, lemon juice and salt until smooth.
- Let the yoghurt mixture down with a couple of spoons of the chickpea water to the body of thick cream.
- Fry the pine nuts in the ghee until golden and take them off the heat.
- Spread the fried bread in a dish and top it with the hot chickpeas and a spoon of their liquid.
- Pour over the yoghurt, spoon on the butter and nuts, dust with paprika and parsley and serve at once.
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