Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Chickpea Breakfast Pizza

adapted from World Vegetarian by Madhur Jaffrey
This is a great morning "pizza" Although I find it more omelette than pizza and super simple to make.

2/3 cup chickpea flour
1/3 tsp salt
3 tbs olive oil
1/2 tsp crushed rosmary (dried)
Fresh ground pepper to taste
3 tbs Tomatoes any kind seeded and chopped (I used marinated sun dried)
chopped cilantro (to taste)
3 tbs finely chopped onion
1 tsp minced garlic
1 cup water

mix chickpea flour and salt then pour half of the water slowly mixing quickly as you pour. Stop and stir out any clumps and add the rest of the water and stir. Let sit for 30 min. Use this time to prepare the other ingredients. I put the tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro and pepper in a bowl and mixed them up together. Preheat the oven to broil and find a 12 inch saute or fying pan (make sure it has a metal handle so it can go in the oven).
After 30 min are up add rosmary and stir. Put 1 tbs of oil in pan and heat on med high till hot and then pour mixture quickly into pan and let it heat up for a few minutes. Do not stir. When it starts to bubble sprinkle the onion/garlic/tomato/cilantro mix over the surface and drizzle the remaining 2 tbs of oil on the top. Grind pepper over top of pizza to taste. Wait about 5-6 minutes and then pop in the oven 5 inches under the broiler. Leave until the top begins to brown.
Take out and let cool, or serve hot (right out of the oven it won't hold together quite as well)

The vegetable amounts are not set and you can vary them and the seasoning amounts to your own taste. if you wanted it spicy it would be great with some chopped jalepenos. I put a quick drizzle of soy sauce on mine.
I haven't tried it yet but I bet the batter would keep overnight and could be cooked in the morning to save time.