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Pigeon, Chickpea, Spring Onion Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 pound dried chickpeas soaked overnight and drained
- 1 whole head of garlic
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 4 cloves of garlic peeled
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 cups ¼extra-virgin olive oil
- a splash of Tabasco to taste
- sea salt and black pepper
- 4 wood pigeons
- 2 bunches of spring onions washed and trimmed
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Instructions
- Place your chickpeas in fresh clean water with the whole garlic and bring to the boil, then simmer for approximately 2 hours, until cooked. Drain (keep the chickpea water, as it makes a very good vegetarian stock), put half the cooked chickpeas into a food processor with the tahini and peeled garlic, whizz, and add the lemon juice and some of the oil: you are looking for a looseish consistency, not a thick glump. Add the Tabasco, salt and pepper, and the rest of the chickpeas then whizz again, but keeping these coarser—coarse is good here.
- Roast the pigeons, allow them to cool to a warm and handleable temperature, then with a sharp knife remove the breasts and legs by following the bird’s back- and breastbones down its carcass.
- Serve with the chickpea purée still slightly warm and a bowl of spring onions. You have got the gamey meat, the soothing, nutty chickpea and the stimulating gnya of the spring onions.