chickpea recipes please

PenniesMake£s

I love chickpeas and I have been looking for chickpea recipes. I don't have a food processor. I add them to chilli and make a salad with them that has finely chopped red pepper and red onion and a dressing of cider vinegar and olive oil and salt. Other than that I don't use them but would like to use them more so...

Please could you tell me what you do with chickpeas?

JIL

chickpea and chorizo stew.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3147690/chorizo-and-chickpea-stew
add to a lentil dahl.

mash up and make burgers

jackyann

I add them to stew / casserole type recipes, but usually spicy ones as they "absorb" a lot of flavour.
This weekend we had a chickpea salad with roast vegetables

Shereen

I love tossing them in oil, sprinkling them with whatever spices take my fancy and roasting them in the oven til they're crispy. A great, nearly healthy, snack.

cat4772

1 tin chickpeas
1 onion, finely chopped
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1 tablespoon Chipotle paste
spinach (fresh or frozen)
oil
couscous

Heat 1tbsp oil in a pan. Add onion and lightly fry. Add chipotle paste, stir. Add chickpeas, stir then add tin tomatoes. If using frozen spinach, add and cook for 10 minutes. if using fresh spinach add after 8 minutes cooking. Serve with couscous cooked as directed on packet.

Is really nice with cubes of Haloumi chesse added in the final 5 minutes to warm through.

Cat.x

Ilona

You could make houmous with them. Mash with a fork add herbs and spices, spread on toast, or thin it with vinegar and lemon and use for dips.
Ilona

flipper_72

A Girl Called Jack has a recipe for a chickpea and apricot curry which all our family really enjoys, even the small fussy one

krlyr

Falafel is another recipe - though a food processor probably makes it a whole lot easier. Maybe check out Freecycle, eBay, etc. if you have room for one - I picked up mine on Freecycle and it lasted years (until I dropped the bowl and cracked it, doh! It was still in working order too)

Steve059

Try this ...

CHICKPEA CURRY

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

2 cloves of garlic
1 onion
2 tablespoons of oil
400g tin of chickpeas
200g (½ a 400g tin) of chopped tomatoes
½ a teaspoon of chilli powder
1 tablespoon of garam masala
½ a teaspoon of ground turmeric
125ml of water

METHOD

Peel the garlic and chop it into tiny pieces. Peel the onion and chop it into tiny pieces.

Put the oil into a saucepan on a moderate heat. Add the garlic and onion. Fry for 3 minutes until they are golden.

Open the tin of chickpeas. Drain off the water. Add the chickpeas.

Add the tomatoes, chilli powder, garam masala, turmeric and water. Stir thoroughly.

Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling. Put the lid on the pan. Cook for another 10 minutes.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

Add a 2cm (1 inch) piece of fresh ginger at the same time as the garlic and onion.

The quantity of chilli powder above makes for a medium curry. For a mild curry, decrease this to ¼ of a teaspoon. For a hot curry, increase this to ¾ of a teaspoon. For a very hot curry, increase this to 1 teaspoon.

elsien

Spanish chicken - a good store cupboard staple. Fry some chorizo, garlic, onions, chicken thighs and carrots. Add tinned tomatoes, paprika and chickpeas, then simmer for an hour and a half.
I tend to do it in the slow cooker - very quick and easy.

madnotstupid

Veggie sausage rolls - mash cooked chickpeas and season, add to a made up packet of stuffing mix and roll in pastry