Moroccan Spiced Chickpea Soup

susie cooks's Note:

This recipe looks really good. It is from Dave Lieberman (Food Network). I recently took a cooking class from him and it was great. So I am trusting that this will be great too!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 large onion, diced
• 6 garlic cloves, pressed
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 3 (15 ounce) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed well
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chopped tomatoes
• 1 quart vegetable broth
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• salt and pepper
• 1 (5 ounce) package prewashed baby spinach

Directions:

1. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
2. Add garlic and onions and saute until onions are translucent (lower heat if browning starts to occur).
3. Add spices and saute for 1 minute.
4. Add tomatoes, chickpeas, broth and sugar.
5. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
6. Stir. Make sure chickpeas are covered with liquid. If needed, add a little more broth.
7. Simmer gently for 45 minutes.
8. Remove soup from heat.
9. Use a potato masher to mash up some of the chickpeas.
10. Stir in spinach and heat through.
11. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

Reviews

[stormylee]

Wonderful soup! I used 1tbls of oil, 1/2 ts of cayenne, 1/2 ts of brown sugar, and chopped spinach, but otherwise followed the recipe. For once I didn't add more garlic than called for: the amount is juuust right! ;-) Fabulous flavours - much thanks for a great recipe!

[sweetz chef]

I too have this recipe via Dave Lieberman....I love it...a healthy, flavorful well rounded meal and you can use vegetable stock instead of chicken to make it totally vegetarian! Delicious...

[UmmBinat]

Really tasty flavours. DH really liked this as a light dinner along with a fresh salad and for breakfast!! I used less cayenne though per our preference. I used a unrefined extra virgin olive oil, the least amount of garlic cloves, a bit less cinnamon, a good canned plum tomatoes which I chopped up myself, Emirati Style Yellow Chicken Stock, sea salt, chopped frozen spinach nuggets and the rest. I will make this again and again.