Captain Rico Live from the bay

Fainá

Fainá

Adapted from TheMealDB

TheMealDB Sourced — pending WFPB review. Recipe data and image via TheMealDB. WFPB analysis and substitutions by Captain Rico are still in progress; the recipe below is the source's original. View the original at TheMealDB.

Prep: 2 min Cook: 68 min Servings: 4

Ingredients

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Method

  1. Prepare the Batter: Whisk together chickpea flour, water, salt, and pepper.
  2. Let sit for at least 4 hours.
  3. Bake: Preheat the oven to 425°F (430°F).
  4. Pour vegetable broth into a round baking dish and heat in the oven.
  5. Pour in the batter and bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden.
  6. Serve: Slice and serve hot, optionally with black pepper on top. Pro Tips:
  7. Let the batter rest for at least 2 hours, or overnight in the refrigerator, to ensure the chickpea flour fully hydrates and the flavors meld.
  8. For a crispy edge, preheat the baking pan with vegetable broth in the oven before adding the batter.

Nutrition per serving (estimated)

  • 193 cal
  • 10.4g protein
  • 3.1g fat
  • 32.3g carbs
  • 6.3g fiber
  • 5.7g sugar
  • 48mg sodium
About the ingredients
Chickpea Flour Cicer arietinum
Chickpea: edible seed of the legume Cicer arietinum, domesticated in the Near East ~9,000 years ago. Eaten whole (boiled, sprouted, roasted) or ground. Rich in plant protein, fiber, folate, iron, manganese. A whole-food legume, canonical WFPB.
Water
Plain potable water (H2O). Universal solvent and culinary base, no calories or nutrients beyond trace minerals. Not derived from any organism; an unprocessed essential. WFPB canonical.
vegetable broth
A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.
Salt NaCl
Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.
Pepper Piper nigrum
Dried unripe fruit (peppercorns) of the pepper vine, used whole or ground. A whole dried spice with nothing added or extracted. Canonical WFPB aromatic.