🇹🇳 Tunisia
Lablabi
Tunis's winter breakfast, ladled at dawn in steamy hole-in-the-wall shops — each eater tears his own bread and builds the bowl to his taste.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Cumin-garlic chickpea broth over day-old bread, finished at the table with harissa, olive oil, capers, and a barely-set egg.
Ingredients
- 400 gcooked chickpeas with their broth
- 1 day-old baguette or country loaf
- 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 tspground cumin
- 2 tbspharissa
- 4 eggs
- 4 tbspolive oil
- 2 tbspcapers and olives
Method
- 1
Simmer the chickpeas in their broth with garlic and cumin until the liquid tastes of both.
- 2
Poach the eggs softly in the broth or on the side.
- 3
Tear the stale bread into bowls and ladle the chickpeas and broth generously over.
- 4
Top each bowl with harissa, olive oil, capers, olives, and an egg — then stir it all into glorious chaos.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4