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Tunisia
Ghraiba homs are the chickpea-flour shortbreads of Tunisia: pale, sandy, melt-in-the-mouth biscuits made from roasted chickpea flour, a little wheat flour, icing sugar, butter and oil, with no egg and no raising agent. They are baked low so they stay pale and cut in diamonds, fingers or "coffee bean" ovals, and they belong to Eid, weddings and the tray of sweets brought out with tea. The nutty chickpea taste is what sets them apart from the Algerian and Moroccan ghribas.
The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 7 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.