Turmeric socca with cucumber, pepper and tahini salad
Serves: 4
Prep time: 30 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Martin Poole.
Turmeric socca with cucumber, pepper and tahini salad
Serves: 4
Prep time: 30 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
218Kcal
Fat
10gr
Saturates
1gr
Carbs
22gr
Sugars
5gr
Fibre
8gr
Protein
10gr
Salt
1.3gr
Amelia Freer
Amelia's aim is to help you discover and celebrate nutritious food - food that is accessible, easy to make and that bursts with goodness & flavour!
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Amelia Freer
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Ingredients
For the socca
- 150g gram (chickpea) flour
- 1 tbsp olive oil, plus a little extra for cooking
- ½-1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp ground turmeric
For the salad
- 1 cucumber, diced
- 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced
- a handful of flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tsp Thai fish sauce (leave this out if you want the recipe to be vegetarian)
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 2 tsp tamari (gluten-free soy sauce)
- a generous pinch of sumac
Step by step
Get ahead
You can make the socca up to 2 days ahead, cool and store in an airtight container (but they are best eaten warm). Make the salad a few hours ahead; dress just before serving.
- Put all the ingredients for the socca batter into a bowl with 250ml cold water and mix until combined – use a balloon whisk or an electric whisk.
- Heat a little oil in a medium (about 21cm) nonstick frying pan. Pour in a quarter of the mixture, covering the surface of the pan (as you would when making a pancake). Cook the socca over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes until it starts to get little bubbles on the surface in the middle and is tinged brown, then turn it over and cook the other side. Transfer the socca to a board and repeat with the rest of the mix, in 3 more batches, adding a little more oil for each one. Slice the socca into triangles.
- To make the salad, mix the cucumber, pepper and parsley in a bowl. To make the dressing, blend or mix the lemon juice, Thai fish sauce (if using), garlic, tahini and tamari – you may need to add a splash of water to thin it a little.
- Pour the dressing over the salad, season and mix, then sprinkle with the sumac. Serve with the socca.
Chef quote
Turmeric has anti-inflammatory properties and is one of my favourite ingredients.
