Chickpea Farinata (Pancake)
Chickpea Farinata (Pancake)

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chickpea farinata (pancake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Farinata is a favorite dish served up and down the coast of seaside Liguria. The rustic recipe features chickpea flour, extra virgin olive oil, and herbs, then blistered into a pancake, and finally showered with fresh black pepper. For the perfect appetizer or snack, serve with crisp white wine and a few chunks of aged cheese.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chickpea farinata (pancake) using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chickpea Farinata (Pancake):
  1. Get 1 cup besan (gram) flour
  2. Take 1 cup water
  3. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
  4. Take Black pepper
  5. Get Garlic powder (optional)
  6. Get 1 tbsp olive oil

It seems that its origins are from the Roman Empire in Genova when a ship full of chickpeas flour and oil got caught in a storm and the flour got wet with seawater. Today farinata takes on different names in different areas: In the Savona area, it is called turtellassu.; In the La Spezia area, fainá. In the Livorno area, torta di ceci. In Sardinia (especially in the Sassari area, where it was brought by the Genoese), faine'.

Steps to make Chickpea Farinata (Pancake):
  1. Whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl and leave to stand for at least an hour but ideally overnight.
  2. Add a little oil to a large frying pan, pour in the mix and cook over a medium heat until you can see the edges forming up and setting.
  3. Flip the pancake to brown and set on both sides. Top with whatever you like!

In Uruguay and Argentina, fainá, and it. The first time I tried farinata, the baked chickpea pancake from Italy, it was dry as particleboard. The second and third times were just as bad. Only after I'd dismissed it as an inexplicably terrible product of the Italian kitchen did I finally taste the real thing, and then I understood why people loved it so much. Savory, custardy, and simple in the best possible way, it's also dead easy.

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