Lablabi

  • Vegetarian
  • Low in lactose

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast
  • Good for lunch

Less suited for dinner.

Tunisian chickpea soup with bread, egg, home-made harissa, cumin and olive oil; a hearty bowl eaten as a meal on its own.

6 servingsFinal yield 2,570 g

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Ingredients

  • 900 gChickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram), mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
  • 300 gBread, French or Vienna
  • 360 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 7 gSpices, cumin seed
  • 20 gPeppers, hot chili, red, raw
  • 2 gSpices, caraway seed
  • 2 gSpices, coriander seed
  • 30 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 25 gGarlic, raw
  • 1,000 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 4 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Make the harissa by blending 20 g chilli, 5 g garlic, 2 g caraway, 2 g ground coriander, 10 g olive oil and 1 g salt into a thick paste.
  2. Chop the remaining 20 g garlic and tear 300 g bread into six bowls.
  3. Cook 900 g chickpeas, the garlic, 1000 g water, 7 g cumin and 3 g salt for 20 minutes at 95 °C.
  4. Add 360 g eggs (six) to the soup, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
  5. Pour the soup with the eggs over the bread, add one sixth of the harissa to each bowl and divide 20 g olive oil.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
3,156.1 kcal
Protein
161.1 g
Fat
97.2 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
420.2 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
78.2 g
Saturated fatty acids
19.6 g
Sodium
3,990 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
10 g

Per serving

Energy from macronutrients
Protein: 26.8 g, 20%Fat: 16.2 g, 27%Total carbohydrate (by difference): 70 g, 53%526 kcalper serving
  • Protein26.8 g20%
  • Fat16.2 g27%
  • Total carbohydrate (by difference)70 g53%

Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.

Energy
526 kcal
Protein
26.8 g
Fat
16.2 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
70 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
13 g
Saturated fatty acids
3.3 g
Sodium
665 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.7 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
122.8 kcal
Protein
6.3 g
Fat
3.8 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
16.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.76 g
Sodium
155.3 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.39 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Gluten, Egg

May contain: Soy, Milk, Sesame

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal
  • USDA FoodData Central FNDDS (2021-2023) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central FNDDS. · CC0 1.0 Universal