How to Make Balila

How to Make Balila Recipe

Balila Recipe

The Cookie Crunchies Mama's Easy Cooking for Home Restaurant Recipes invites you to try Balila  Recipe. Enjoy quick and easy Middle Eastern food recipes and learn how to make Balila.

In the same repertoire as foul mdammas, balila is a chick-pea salad, and a staple of the souk's breakfast. So hommos comes in many ways, from a salad to the smoothest paste as hommos b'tehini!

Ingredients
1 cup chick-peas
1 clove of garlic, crushed
juice of 2 lemons
5 tbsp olive oil
salt

Directions
  • Soak the chick-peas in water for 10 hours, change the water and put to cook on a small fire, add a tbsp of bicarbonate of soda or a strip of kombu seaweed to help the beans soften.
  • Drain the cooked chick-peas and mix with the garlic, lemon and olive oil.
  • Serve hot with spring onion aside, tomatoes and mint.
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  • Hummus without Tahini
  • Middle Eastern Hummus with Veg Sticks 
  • Roasted Garlic Hummus 
  • Classic Lebanese Hummus Dip 
  • Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
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