{"id":16267,"date":"2020-06-10T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bistrobadia.de\/balilah-warmer-kichererbsensalat\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T05:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:23:32","slug":"balilah-warm-chickpea-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bistrobadia.de\/en\/balilah-warm-chickpea-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Balilah: Warm chickpea salad with roasted pine nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are dishes that I would love to write a song about. But since I unfortunately sing like a dying rooster and have not been very good at writing songs either, I will gladly leave this pleasure to you. Balilah is a dish that definitely deserves its own song! The chickpea salad served warm is a must for a good mezze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balilah: A great taste explosion with just a few ingredients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For many dishes of Levantine cuisine, you only need a handful of ingredients, but with the right combination you get an absolutely crazy spectacle of flavours. For balilah, you only need chickpeas, lemon, parsley, spring onion, pine nuts and a small flood of the best olive oil. The lemon is used in its entirety – even the peel. This way you can bring a whole range of citrus flavours into the salad with just one ingredient. The lemon juice provides the necessary acidity. The lemon peel, on the other hand, gives Balilah the scent of a lemon plantation and a really pleasant bitter note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, before you call the salad “Fifty shades of lemon”, you need to know that the chickpeas are also used twice. A small part of the chickpeas, still warm, is crushed with garlic, while the rest is added whole. This gives the warm salad an absolutely delicious creaminess. And when you then come across the toasted pine nuts, you will surely notice how multi-faceted Balilah is. The spice of choice here is cumin, by the way. The ground cumin not only provides a pleasantly savoury taste, but also makes the dish more digestible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mezze, starter and main course in one<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Balilah is a warm chickpea salad that you can safely serve as a whole main meal. I can actually eat my fill of it without getting sick of it \ud83d\ude09 You can also fill the warm chickpea salad into small bowls and serve it alongside hummus<\/a>, baba ghanoush<\/a>, falafel<\/a> and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recipe for Balilah<\/h2>\n\n\n
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