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Beef Bozbash Azerbaijani Style with Chickpeas
Beef Bozbash Azerbaijani Style with Chickpeas is a hearty and rich dish from Azerbaijani cuisine. It is prepared with lamb or beef. Potatoes and chickpeas are also added to the dish. In this recipe, the dish is made with beef. Bozbash is served for lunch or dinner in deep soup plates.
Preparation time: 120 minutes + 8 hours for soaking chickpeas.
Caloric content: 117 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- beef pulp – 800 g;
- potato – 600 g;
- onion – 1-2 pcs;
- chickpeas – 200 g;
- tomato paste – 70 g;
- salt, pepper – to taste;
- vegetable oil – for frying.
Preparation
- Prepare the ingredients according to the list for making Beef Bozbash Azerbaijani Style with Chickpeas.
- Cut the beef pulp into large pieces.
- Soak chickpeas in clean water for eight hours in advance.
- Boil the beef in salted water. Cook for one to one and a half hours, until the meat is tender.
- Transfer the pre-soaked chickpeas to a pot, add clean water in a ratio of (1:3), i.e., 1 cup of chickpeas and 3 cups of water. Boil for forty minutes after boiling. The peas (chickpeas) can also be cooked without soaking, but then the cooking time will increase to 1.5 hours.
- While the meat and chickpeas are boiling in separate pots, finely chop the onion.
- Remove the boiled meat from the broth and transfer it to a separate dish. The meat should dry a little.
- In a pot with a thick bottom, pour vegetable oil and heat it well. Add the prepared onion and fry until golden brown.
- Add the meat without any liquid to the golden onion so that it also browns. If the meat has broth, it will start to stew, which we do not want.
- Add tomato paste to the onion and meat, mix the ingredients and sauté for a couple of minutes.
- Pour the beef broth, in which the meat was cooked, into the pot. You can adjust the thickness of the dish to your liking. If you add less broth to the meat, the "Bozbash" will be thicker, and vice versa.
- Cut the potatoes into large pieces.
- Add the potatoes to the soup and cook for about fifteen minutes.
- After fifteen minutes, add the cooked chickpeas to the pot with the soup. Bring the soup to a boil, add salt and pepper. If necessary, you can add sugar to taste.
- Beef Bozbash Azerbaijani Style with Chickpeas is ready. Remove the pot with the soup from the heat and let it steep for another ten to fifteen minutes.
Pour the steeped soup into portioned plates and serve at the table.
If desired, you can add cilantro or parsley to the plate. Enjoy your meal.
