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Middle Eastern Garbanzo Bean Soup

Source of Recipe

Original


Recipe Introduction

I wanted to create a soup with flavors reminiscent the Middle East. Here's the result.

List of Ingredients

1 pound dried garbanzo beans
cooking oil of choice
1 onion, chopped
4 small cloves garlic, minced
1 carrots, chopped small
cumin, at least 1 teaspoon
coriander, at least 1 teaspoon
1/2 t. all spice
ground pepper to taste
6 cups chicken stock
1/3ish cup tahini
juice of 2 Meyer lemons
1 garnet yam, chopped (not thematic but very tasty!)
1/4 cup EACH cilantro and parsley (flat leaf)


Recipe

Cook garbanzos. Reserve about half of beans and all of the cooking liquid.

Heat oil in stock pot. Add onion, saute until translucent. Add garlic and continue to cook 2 mins, stirring frequently to prevent burning. Add carrots, cook for a few minutes more. Add spices and cook until fragrant, a minute or so, stirring constantly. Add stock, 1/2 of cooked garbanzos, tahini and lemon juice. When carrots are cooked, bBlitz with stick blender. Add remaining garbanzo beans, sweet potato, and spinach. Cook until sweet potato is cooked through. Add cilantro and parsley. Adjust seasoning (may need a touch more lemon). If soup is too thick, dilute with some of the bean cooking liquid.