Chickpea-Flour Crêpes (Socca)

Name: Chickpea-Flour Crêpes (Socca)
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: serves 4-6
Ingredients: 1 cup chickpea flour; 1 ⁄ 2 cup olive oil; 1 1 ⁄ 2 tbsp. minced rosemary; 3 ⁄ 4 tsp. kosher salt; 1 ⁄ 4 tsp. ground cumin; Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Serves
serves 4-6

This rosemary-scented chickpea-flour crepe is a mainstay of southern French markets. Serve it as an appetizer, or with a salad for a light meal. This recipe first appeared in our June/July 2012 issue along with Sylvie Bigar's story The Road to Paradise.

Ingredients

1 cup chickpea flour
¹⁄₂ cup olive oil
1 ¹⁄₂ tbsp. minced rosemary
³⁄₄ tsp. kosher salt
¹⁄₄ tsp. ground cumin
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

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Instructions

Step 1

Whisk together flour, 2 tbsp. oil, 1 tbsp. rosemary, salt, and 1 cup water in a medium bowl until smooth; cover and let batter sit at room temperature for 2 hours.

Step 2

Heat broiler to high and heat a 10" cake pan under broiler for 10 minutes. Add 3 tbsp. oil to pan, and then pour in half the batter, tilting pan to spread it over bottom of pan. Broil until crisp and browned all over, about 4 minutes. Remove from oven, and sprinkle with half each the remaining rosemary, salt, cumin, and pepper; repeat with remaining oil, batter, rosemary, salt, cumin, and pepper.