Chickpeas and Toasted Bread with Yogurt-Tahini Sauce

Fattet Hummus

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 2014

  • About

Fattet Hummus is “one of the many exquisite Arabic dishes that revolve around day-old bread,” writes Annia Ciezadlo in Day of Honey. Fattet means “crushed” or “crumb” and refers to the bread pieces that form the base of several ingeniously delicious and frugal dishes. Pieces of stale pita are given new life when toasted. Spread on a platter, they absorb the juices of the chickpeas (hummus in Arabic) and complement their earthy flavor. Meat, poultry, fried or stuffed egg