Layered Chickpea Fatteh with Yoghurt and Crispy Bread

Golden shards of fried bread, creamy yoghurt kissed with garlic, and tender chickpeas bathed in warm spices — this is fatteh in all its layered glory. A dish with deep Levantine roots, it takes the humblest ingredients — bread, pulses, yoghurt — and turns them into something rich, textured, and celebratory.

Across the Middle East, fatteh is served at gatherings and family tables, where it’s less a recipe and more a ritual. Sometimes made with meat, sometimes without, it always begins with crisp bread at the base, silky chickpeas in the middle, and a cool, tangy yoghurt blanket on top. Each spoonful. . .