How to make Lablabi tounsi | How to cook tunisian food

                             How to make Lablabi tounsi 

What is Lablabi ? 

 

In Tunisia, lablabi is a dish made from chickpeas, bread and a soup

flavored with cumin. The bread is diced and served in bowls. It is watered by the cooked chickpeas with water and then seasoned and mixed with harissa, cumin, olive oil and salt. You can then add capers, olives, variants (salty pickled vegetables), tuna or soft boiled egg (essential), all washed down with lemon juice, to taste, vinegar .

How to make Lablabi :  

Step 1 :

-  Put chickpeas in water overnight .

 Don't skip this step otherwise it will super hard to do it. It will make it much easier and quicker .

Step 2 :  

- Put chickpeas in boiling water and let it for about 1 hour depending on the Quantity . 

Step 3 : - You need a bowl to put your food in it .

Step 4 : - cut the bread into small pieces .

Step 5 : - Add the harissa to the bread depending on your taste . 

( If you don't know what harissa is ? It is dry peper, some dry tomatoes , smached garlic and some spices all mixed toghether and smached , You can buy it , It is exremly hot. ) 
  

  Step 6 : -After your chickpeas are done , Don't throw the water .

Add them and their water . 

Step 7 : Put a little bit of olive oil , It is so healthy . 
( optinal step ) 

Step 8 : Add a tiny amount of cumin .

Step 9 : -Accually, You can put an egg on the top then add some of the chickpeas water, So that the egg will be cooked with the heat .
( Otional step )

Step 10 : -Mix all of the ingredients . 
( Important Step ) 
 
 












Step 11 : -Eat and enjoy your meal . 

NOTE :  
+Tunisian people do this meal only in winter because it is hot and keeps  you warm .

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How to Make Assida Zgougou | How to cook tunisian food.

                  How To make Assidat Zgougou 

 +We do Assida religiously . In Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Religious Affairs considers this festival as alien to Islam and as a non-religious innovation of origin - although its celebration is not prohibited by autorités14 - while celebrating paradoxically Mohammed bin Abdelwahhab for a week annually
 +Assida Zgougou is a very popular dessert  in Tunisia 

What is Asida Zgougou :

  + It is a cream made ​​from seeds of Aleppo pine, not to be confused with stone pine nuts and pine Armand.
+ Traditionally, Tunisians exchange bowls Assida between neighbors and family members, making decorating bowls Assida as important as the taste of the recipe. Many use all kinds of dried fruit to vary the decorative shapes and colors (pistachios, walnuts, hazelnuts, etc..).

   + I am going to be explaing the steps and put some picture !

 How to make Assida Zgougou : 

Step 1: 

  For cream Assidat:
- 1 kg zgougou (Aleppo pine seeds) preferably already ground
- 700 g of flour
- 400 g of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of starch or cornstarch
- 5 ounces of rose water
- 1.8 liters of water

 For the custard:
- 1 liter of milk
- 5 tablespoons of starch (or cornstarch)
- 150 g of sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 2 tablespoons of rosewater
- 4 egg yolks  

 For the decoration:
- Some toasted almonds
- Some unsalted pistachios ground
- Some hazelnuts and walnuts                      

Step 2 :        

For cream Assidah: to two days before: clean the zgougou ground if not then let dry on a cloth to full dry.   

Step 3 :         

The same day: soak zgougou an hour. Remove zgougou water with a sieve then pass the mixer until a dough.

Step 4 : 

Place the dough or zgougou already ground through a sieve (I advise a very fine cloth) and squeeze the maximum in a large bowl by passing 1.8 liters of water little by little to extract juice comes out of the cream color. Continue the process until the water clears.  

Step 5 :

Collect the juice and put it in a large pot (pressure cooker kind).                                       

Step 6 : 

Add the flour, sugar and cornstarch and start mixing .

Step 7 : 

Put on low heat and never stop stirring ,When the mixture thickens (even a custard texture), add rose water and continue to stir for about 2 minutes to get it penetrates through the last ingredient.

Step 8 : 

Pour the soup into bowls (glass péférence).

Step 9 : 

let it cool . 

Step 10 : 

For the pastry cream: Boil the milk. 

Step 11 : 

In a bowl, mix 4 egg yolks with the sugar then add the starch and mix again.

Step 12 :

Add milk mixture (on low heat) while stirring and then finally add the rose water. 

Step 13 :

Pour the pastry cream with assida and let it cool .

step 14 : 

Finally, sprinkle about 1 mm of almonds, pistachios or decorate as per your taste with nuts, toasted almonds, etc.. 

Step 15 :                                      

Bring a spoon and strart eating . 

NOTE : there are so many ways and hows that you can decorate you Assida Here's some of them :

  

   

                                              

Thank you for reading !

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