🇱🇧 Lebanon
Moussaka'a
Lebanese msa'aa is a chilled oily dish from the maghmour family — eggplant, chickpeas, and tomato eaten with bread the next day, even better.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 50 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Fully vegetarian: fried eggplant stewed with chickpeas, tomato, and plenty of olive oil, served at room temperature.
Ingredients
- 3 eggplants, cubed
- 300 gcooked chickpeas
- 4 ripe tomatoes, chopped
- 2 tbsptomato paste
- 2 onions, sliced
- 6 clovesgarlic, whole
- 120 mlolive oil
- 1 tspdried mint
Method
- 1
Fry the eggplant cubes until deeply golden; drain.
- 2
Soften the onions and whole garlic cloves in olive oil.
- 3
Add tomatoes, paste, chickpeas, and the eggplant; simmer gently 30 minutes.
- 4
Finish with dried mint and let it cool in its oil.
- 5
Serve at room temperature with bread — it deepens overnight.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4