Chickpea Balls with Tomato Sauce
Cooking time30 minutes
Prep time40 minutes
Servings4 portions
Ingredients
For the chickpea balls
- 250 gr. chickpeas, soaked
- 2 onions
- 2 garlic cloves
- 100 gr. stale bread crumbs
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon dry mint
- 1 tablespoon Altis Crete Chania Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Pepper
- Salt
- For frying, we will also need
- 200 ml. Altis Classic Olive Oil
- 4 tablespoons flour
For the sauce
- 300 gr. tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon concentrated tomato juice
- 1 garlic clove
- 30 ml Altis Crete Chania Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon hot red pepper
- 1 small cinnamon stick
- Salt
Instructions
EXECUTION
- In the multi blender, we mince the chickpeas but not to the point of a pulp, and place them in a bowl.
- We mince the onions and garlic, and we add them to the mix together with the cumin, parsley, salt and pepper.
- We add the bread, moist and well pressed, and 1 tablespoon olive oil.
- We stir well and form the balls; we powder them with the flour and fry them in the hot olive oil.
- For the sauce
- We grate the tomatoes in the grater, we mix well all the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan, and we boil the sauce until it thickens.
- We serve the chickpea balls in a serving plate, pour the sauce over them, and sprinkle them with minced parsley or coriander.
- We do not boil the chickpeas at all
- The hot pepper is optional
