Cecina
Success.
Basically, you want at least a 1:1 ratio for the water and chickpea flour, and then olive oil till it seems right.
I did 2 cups warm water, 2 1/2 cups chickpea flour, about 3 TBS olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and a little cumin. Let the batter rest for a bit, and then pour it into a pan with rather a lot of olive oil in the bottom and bake it. I tried it at 400° until the top was solid, first. It was done all the way through, but it broke when I tried to take it out.
I am trying the second batch at 275° for more like half an hour and we'll see.
It is really delicious.
However, in the course of baking things for lunch, my blood sugar ended up dropping, and because I was eating cecina and pesto ham and drinking unsweetened iced tea, it just wasn't rising (protein and complex carbs really don't break down fast enough to avert Blood Sugar Crisis) I ended up eating a spoon of honey. :P I hate having to do that. I mean, it hits fast, but...ugh.
Wu ate a green olive and pronounced it Food.
Basically, you want at least a 1:1 ratio for the water and chickpea flour, and then olive oil till it seems right.
I did 2 cups warm water, 2 1/2 cups chickpea flour, about 3 TBS olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and a little cumin. Let the batter rest for a bit, and then pour it into a pan with rather a lot of olive oil in the bottom and bake it. I tried it at 400° until the top was solid, first. It was done all the way through, but it broke when I tried to take it out.
I am trying the second batch at 275° for more like half an hour and we'll see.
It is really delicious.
However, in the course of baking things for lunch, my blood sugar ended up dropping, and because I was eating cecina and pesto ham and drinking unsweetened iced tea, it just wasn't rising (protein and complex carbs really don't break down fast enough to avert Blood Sugar Crisis) I ended up eating a spoon of honey. :P I hate having to do that. I mean, it hits fast, but...ugh.
Wu ate a green olive and pronounced it Food.
Aaargh.
So I tried this cecina recipe I found online.
1 cup chickpea flour, 2 cups warm water, some olive oil, salt and pepper. Totally no biggie, right?
WRONG. I have no idea what kind of chickpea flour he's using, but this does not work.
I hunted around further (after adding a BUNCH more chickpea flour), and I think someone read a recipe in metric (500 mL warm water, 200 GRAMS of chickpea flour) and thought that a mL and a g were the same thing.
The first batch is currently cooking. We'll see how it does.
1 cup chickpea flour, 2 cups warm water, some olive oil, salt and pepper. Totally no biggie, right?
WRONG. I have no idea what kind of chickpea flour he's using, but this does not work.
I hunted around further (after adding a BUNCH more chickpea flour), and I think someone read a recipe in metric (500 mL warm water, 200 GRAMS of chickpea flour) and thought that a mL and a g were the same thing.
The first batch is currently cooking. We'll see how it does.