farinata

plural farinate · plural farinatas

1. A flat baked pancake, somewhat similar to a pizza, made from chickpea flour and olive oil.

   To begin: a Ligurian specialty, farinata, half pancake, half pizza, made from chickpea flour, immersed in olive oil and baked until it sets but doesn’t crisp; the insides barely make it past gooey.

   2014 November 27, Ligaya Mishan, “Hungry City: Fitzcarraldo in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN