Swiss Chard with Chick Peas
SILQ BI HUMMUS
- 3 lbs. fresh Swiss chard
- 1 cup hummus (chick peas)
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 3/4 cup chopped onions
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 spring green kizbara (coriander), chopped
- 2 lemons
Wash chard well. Chop stems and leaves separately. Cook
chopped stems with quarter cup water in pressure cooker for
four minutes under pressure. Reduce pressure, open cooker,
add chopped leaves and cook together eight minutes. Meanwhile
roll hummus (soaked overnight) with rolling pin to split
and remove skins. Remove chard from pressure cooker. Cook
hummus in water to cover 12 minutes under pressure. Drain
chard well, pressing out water. Combine chard with hummus.
Fry onions in oil until brown. Add crushed garlic and kizbara.
Add these to chard and peas and simmer on low fire until
heated through and flavors are blended. Sprinkle with lemon
juice. Chill.
This dish need not be prepared in a pressure cooker. Boil
hummus until tender. Boil chard stems until nearly tender, add
leaves and finish cooking. Drain chard well and combine with
hummus. Saute onions, garlic and kizbara. Combine everything,
heat well. When flavors are blended. Sprinkle with lemon
juice, simmer, pour into serving dish and chill.
(From Food from the Arab World Marie
Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge, Khayat's, Beirut 1959)
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