Kawareh bi Hummus

Name: Kawareh bi Hummus (Calf’s Feet and Chick Peas)
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: 250 g (8 oz) chick peas, soaked overnight; 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced (optional); 1 teaspoon turmeric; Salt and black pepper; 3 tablespoons oil; 2 calf’s feet

Calf’s Feet and Chick Peas

Preparation info

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

This dish is loved all over the Middle East, in the Balkans, and in Spain and Portugal. Non-Muslims, and Muslims who are lax about their prohibitions, sometimes use pig’s trotters instead of calf’s feet. The dish is sometimes served as a soup, prepared with only 1 calf’s foot, and more water.

Ingredients

2 calf’s feet
3 tablespoons oil
Salt and black pepper

Balkans
Europe
Portugal
Spain
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Wash and scrape the feet thoroughly. Blanch them in boiling water until a scum has formed. Throw out the water. Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the feet in it for a few minutes until coloured all over. Add salt and pepper to taste, turmeric, and the soaked and drained chick peas. Cover with water, bring to the boil and simmer gently until the meat is practically falling off the bones,