How to make çeciir at Home?

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Key ingredients of çeciir
3. Complete method of cooking çeciir
4. Two ways to present çeciir
5. Health benefits
6. Conclusion

Overview

If you want to know about çeciir then you are at right place. here you are going to know all about çeciir from its origin to its proper method of cooking.

Çeciir is an old central Asian based recipe. Which is basically made of dried chickpeas. This recipe is very famous in Asia and is a big part of breakfast.it is also getting popular among all the western countries of the world.

Key ingredients of çeciir

To cook çeciir we need some basic spices and main ingredient that is chickpea. The detailed list of all the needed ingredients is as under.

• Chickpeas ½ kg
• Onion 3 big size
• Garlic paste 2 table spoons
• Ginger paste 2 table spoons
• Tomatoes 4 big size
• Salt to taste
• Red chili 1 table spoon
• Turmeric power ¼ table spoon
• Cumin power 2 table spoons
• Oil 8-10 table spoons

Complete method of cooking çeciir

To cook çeciir what you need to do firstly is to soak chickpeas in warm water overnight. You can also add one pinch of eating soda in water also so that chickpeas may get little tender before cooking.it also helps in cooking to make them tender.

Secondly take a cooking cooker and add soaked chickpeas into it. Add fresh water so that they are dip in water. Add 3 large sized onion in cooker and ginger garlic paste. Mix them well so that all the things get mixed meanwhile flame keep slow. Then add all of the spices that are red chili, salt, cumin powder, turmeric power and tomatoes. Then set pressure cooker to work. Let the whistle get start and then note time for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes of whistle turn the flame off.

You will check that all the chickpea will become complete tender and soft. You can check your spices at this stage you can add more if you needed. This is the time when you will add oil in it. After adding oil keep flame little high and keep mixing until oil that you have added in it comes up.

Two ways to present çeciir

When your çeciir is prepared you have two methods to serve them.

1. You can serve as it is in form of thick gravi.
2. You can add 2 jugs of water to make a liquidy soup of chickpeas.

It can be served with piece of bread or with boiled rice also.it can be served with salad of onion, cabbage and tomatoes.

Health benefits

This soup of çeciir is very healthy for our health.it is also very helpful to save us from many viral diseases.it is very good to use in flue and fever.it is full of protein and very recommended from doctors to have.

Conclusion

Çeciir is a very healthy recipe of central Asia. Which is made of chickpeas as a main ingredient. The full process of cooking has discussed above with all its health benefits.it can be served with rice and bread at any time.it is so healthy that is getting populus among all the age group of people of different countries. The future of çeciir is that it will become the  key recipe of all traditional  events of the families.