Grilled Quail With Chickpeas

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This is simply a delicious and agleam dish, layered with Texas flavor, for a caller outpouring menu.

Pickled ginger is disposable successful the planetary aisles of galore supermarkets.

The garbanzo beans indispensable beryllium soaked overnight. The guajillo puree whitethorn beryllium made up to a week successful advance. The Chile Barbeque and Quail Marinade tin beryllium enactment unneurotic the time earlier to let the flavors to marry. The quails request to marinate successful the refrigerator for 3 hours.

Adapted from a look by Tim Byres, cook astatine Smoke edifice successful Dallas.

Ingredients

For the chili barbecue

  • 35 dried guajillo chile peppers
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 2 jalapeño peppers, stemmed and seeded
  • Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 3 limes
  • 1 tablespoonful crushed caraway seed
  • 1/2 tablespoonful crushed cumin seed
  • 1/2 tablespoonful crushed coriander
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons sugar
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1/4 clump cilantro leaves and tender stems (about 1/4 cupful packed)
  • 1/4 clump mint leaves (about 1/4 cupful packed)
  • 1/4 cupful olive oil

For the quail marinade

  • 4 tablespoons coriander seed
  • 3 bunches caller cilantro
  • 20 cloves garlic
  • 8 tablespoons paprika
  • 4 tablespoons crushed cumin
  • 1/2 cupful pickled ginger with 1/4 cupful of its pickling juice
  • 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
  • 2 cups blended lipid (or neutral oil)
  • 8 lemons, foodstuff and zest
  • 4 tablespoons kosher salt
  • 12 quails, quartered and patted dry

For the chickpeas

  • 3 cups dried chickpeas, soaked overnight successful h2o to cover, and rinsed
  • No-salt-added chickenhearted broth for cooking the chickpeas, positive 1/4 cupful for the chickpea mixture
  • 4 teaspoons neutrally flavored oil, specified arsenic rootlike oregon canola oil
  • 1 mean achromatic onion, chopped into mean dice (1 cup)
  • 3 jalapeño peppers, stemmed and seeded, chopped into mean dice
  • 4 cloves ail (stem ends removed), chopped into paper-thin slices
  • 4 cups turnip greens, from astir 2 bunches of turnips, rinsed well, past coarsely chopped
  • 1/2 clump oregano leaves
  • Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 2 lemons
  • Kosher salt

For assembly

  • 1/2 clump flat-leaf parsley leaves
  • 1/4 clump mint leaves (about 1/4 cupful packed)
  • 1/4 clump cilantro leaves (about 1/4 cupful packed)
  • 1 mean shallot, chopped into precise bladed slices (about 1/4 cup)
  • Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 1 lemon
  • Kosher salt

Adapted from a look by Tim Byres, cook astatine Smoke edifice successful Dallas.

Tested by Jim Shahin.

Published April 24, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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