Lebanese Nachos
By: tasteofbeirut
Published: Friday, March 26, 2010 - 3:58pm

Ingredients




2 cans of chick peas
olive oil as needed

1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and allspice
3 pita bread
1 pound lowfat yogurt
1 tablespoon of tahini
8 cloves of garlic
salt, to taste

1/4 cup of pine nuts
1 tablespoon of butter

Preparation

1 Drain chick peas and place in pot with 3 cups of water 2 Cook chick peas for one hour till water evaporates and they are soft. 3 Mash garlic with salt in a mortar 4 Add cumin to chick peas, olive oil, cinnamon and allspice and mash them a bit 5 Add garlic to the chick peas and taste to adjust seasoning 6 Mix tahini and garlic with yogurt 7 Cut pita in triangles and toast in 300F oven till golden 15 minutes 8 Melt butter in skillet and toast pine nuts till caramelized 9 When ready to serve, plop a tablespoon of mashed chick peas on pita triangles, add one tablespoon of yogurt and sprinkle pine nuts

About


This is a fusion of the popular Tex-Mex nachos with Lebanese traditional fatteh, a layered dish which consists of toasted pita croutons, garlicky yogurt and meat or legume stew, in this case, chick peas; it has all the fun and none of the fat of the Tex-Mex version.