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Lebanese Chickpea Soup

This delicious Lebanese chickpea soup is the perfect Middle Eastern-inspired comfort soup! It's bursting with amazing flavors and very filling due to chickpeas, potatoes, and carrots.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Choose Serving Size 6

Ingredients 

For the soup:

  • 2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion large, sliced
  • 2 carrots sliced
  • 2 potato medium, cubed
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 cups chickpeas cooked
  • 1 tomato large, diced
  • 3 cups light homemade veggie broth or replace with water
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 tsp paprika powder
  • ½ lemon juice juiced
  • 1 handful fresh parsley chopped
  • 1 tsp chili flakes
  • 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast

For the Baharat powder:

  • ½ tsp cinnamon ground
  • ½ tsp cloves ground
  • ⅓ tsp cardamon ground
  • ½ tsp coriander seeds ground
  • ½ tsp nutmeg grated
  • 1 tsp ginger powder
  • 1 ½ tsp red peppercorns finely ground

Instructions

  • Heat a large saucepan over a medium heat.
  • Dry roast all the Barhat spices, about a minute, and set aside.
  • Heat the oil in the saucepan.
  • Add onions and garlic and saute for about 2 minutes, until the onions are soft.
  • Add the diced tomato and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 3 more minutes.
  • Add carrots and potatoes, continue to cook.
  • Add the Bahrat powder you roasted separately, bay leaf and saute the veggies a few more minutes to combine the juices, flavors, and spices.
  • Add the broth, tomato paste, paprika powder, chili flakes and water; mix until well combined, turn up the heat to high and bring the mixture to a boil.
  • Add the boiled chickpeas.
  • Lower the heat to a simmer and continue to cook for 5 to 10 minutes.
  • Turn the heat off, add lemon juice, some chopped parsley and put the lid on.
  • Let it rest for about 5 minutes.
  • Serve with fresh chopped parsley and nutritional yeast flakes (optional) on top.