Description
Garantita, also called karantika or karan, is a baked chickpea-flour custard with a crisp golden top and cumin warmth. Serve it hot in baguette with harissa at home for a simple, filling Algerian street-food meal.
Ingredients
Scale
For a 22 × 33 cm Pyrex baking dish
- 2 glasses chickpea flour (glass = 220 ml)
- 1 glass milk (optional; you can replace it with water)
- 3½ glasses water
- 2 eggs
- ¼ glass oil
- 1½ teaspoons salt (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin (I used a bit more because my family loves it)
- Black pepper
Instructions
- Whisk the eggs with the milk (or 1 glass of water), salt, cumin, black pepper, and oil until smooth.
- Slowly pour the mixture into the chickpea flour, whisking well to remove any lumps.
- Add the water little by little to prevent lumps. The batter should be very runny.
- Grease the baking dish and pour in the batter.
- The dish size affects thickness: taller or thinner garantita.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, depending on your oven.
- When it comes out, you should have two layers: a soft flan-like base and a creamier top.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: appetizer, snack
- Cuisine: Algerian cuisine
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 320 kcal