Levantine · Breakfast
Tender warm chickpeas in loose lemony tahini sauce.
Photo by Itzuvit · CC BY-SA 3.0 · No local modifications; served from the Wikimedia Commons original.
Musabaha shares hummus’s ingredients but not its texture. Chickpeas remain whole or lightly crushed in a loose tahini sauce and are served warm, often for breakfast.
Technique notes
Recipe status
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Warm, very tender whole/partly crushed chickpeas; Tahini, lemon and garlic
Declared allergens: sesame, wheat if served with pita
Refrigerate for up to 3 days; loosen with warm water before gently reheating. This is within USDA's general 3–4-day cooked-leftover ceiling where applicable; refrigerate promptly in shallow covered containers.
Contains sesame. Keep tahini refrigerated after opening if the manufacturer directs. Verify packaged stock, spice blends, bread and substitutes for declared allergens/cross-contact.
Hadia Zebib is credited with preparing and publishing an independent version of this dish in Musabaha, Bathed Chickpeas in Tahini Sauce for Hadia’s Lebanese Cuisine.
What this supports: dish identity, method, texture/doneness, serving result.
Verifies an independently prepared version of the dish, not Gastromica’s exact recipe. Musabaha varies across the Levant, and Zebib's Lebanese presentation and sauce proportions are one documented version.
Levantine kitchen
Levantine musabaha serves warm chickpeas in a loose tahini-lemon sauce with garlic, cumin and olive oil.
Simmer chickpeas with their liquid for 10 minutes until very tender.
Whisk tahini, lemon, garlic and salt; add cold water by tablespoons until loose and pale.
Add warm chickpeas and ½ cup hot liquid to tahini. Crush a few beans and fold until creamy but chunky.
Spoon into bowls and top with cumin, olive oil, parsley and paprika.
Review ingredient labels for allergens and cross-contact. Follow the recipe’s handling notes, refrigerate perishable food promptly, and use an instant-read thermometer where a safe internal temperature is specified.
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Research EditionGood to know
Musabaha shares hummus’s ingredients but not its texture. Chickpeas remain whole or lightly crushed in a loose tahini sauce and are served warm, often for breakfast.
Refrigerate for up to 3 days; loosen with warm water before gently reheating.
Serve immediately with warm pita, tomatoes, pickles and raw onion.
