Hello there. I'm going to be showing you how to make a recipe that I made up. I call this the Middle Eastern Chalupa.
Now, first of all we’re going to make our spread for the top of the pita bread. Garbanzo beans, I already opened the can which you want to do is you want to just pour out most of the juice. Just keep a little bit in there. Add it to your food processor. Second ingredient is tahini. Tahini is a sesame seed paste. So what they do is they get a bunch of sesame seeds and grind it up, make it to a paste. Now this is a very crucial ingredient in making this dip which is called hummus, for those of you who don’t know. What you do is you get 1 teaspoon of tahini and put it inside of your garbanzo beans.
Next ingredient, lemon juice. You want to get one lemon. Before you use it, you want to zest it. You go and get your zester. Just run it across the zest back and forth. Now lemon zest is extremely potent stuff, very, very good. You want to stick all that zest right inside that processor.
Next, you want to cut your lemon up. Make sure you don’t get any seeds in there. What I like to do is just put my zester in there and squeeze it right in top of the zester, that way all the seeds fall right on top of the zester. Salt and you want to salt to taste. Now these garbanzo beans don’t have salt in them. When you’re working with this you want to add a more salt than usual. Most garbanzo beans already have salt in them but this don’t. And now you get your fresh ground black pepper. And I just want to eyeball the salt and pepper.
Now what I do is while you’re processing this, I’ll just take some extra virgin olive oil, about 2 teaspoon. So you got a good consistency. You stop it and you add the rest of the garbanzo beans. And I’ve got preheated the oven. Nice and toasty and it’s nice and crispy. What you want to do is get some of this hummus right in the middle of that. Spread around. And you want to get your onion. Cut a slice of onion. Rough chop that. I’d like to stick in a cup of hot water just to get a little bit of that bitterness out of it.
Next, the cucumber, make slices like you would for a sandwich. Lay those on your middle eastern chalupa. Get your avocado. Slice it down and across. That way you get little squares. Cut around it. Now you got yourself some avocado squares. But before that, we only get some yogurt. This yogurt is Bulgarian yogurt, so, so good. Just drizzle around your pita. It’s going to give another layer of flavor there. Get your onions out of the water. Sprinkle your onions on top. Get your avocado slices. Just kind of just put those around just like that. I’d just like to get a handful of parsley. Chop that parsley and you want to just sprinkle that parsley on there and voila! You have yourself a middle eastern chalupa.
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