What are chickpea dishes? How to cook them? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. The dishes with chickpeas, or, as it is also called, lamb or Turkish peas, are distinguished by satiety and turn out to be very tasty. Chickpeas are most popular in Central Asia, as well as in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Here, porridge, snacks, sweets and side dishes are cooked from chickpeas. Recipes with chickpeas are interesting for those who fast, and for vegetarians: due to the special structure, which, after cooking, takes lamb peas, and its nutritional value, the dishes are very dense, warm and leave you feeling full for a long time. Consider some of them below.
Chickpeas
Many people like chickpea dishes. The beans of this Turkish pea have a strange shape, which resembles a lamb head with a bird's beak. Their diameter ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 cm.
Chickpeas contain much less protein than other legumes. It is also perfectly absorbed. But the basic essential acids - tryptophan and methionine - are found in it more than in other beans.
Chickpea contains fiber that improves digestion, has a beneficial effect on heart function. Sprouted chickpeas contain potassium, magnesium, a huge amount of calcium, vitamins A and C, high-quality fats and proteins. Lamb peas give the body energy that is consumed gradually without increasing blood sugar. It is a low-calorie product with high nutritional value.
Chickpeas are stored impeccably. Dried, compared with fresh, saves up to 70% of all minerals and vitamins. In the world of dried foods, this result is considered a record.
According to the protein content, chickpeas can successfully replace meat. The chickpea broth is identical in taste to chicken. He is so rich that a spoon is in it as soon as it cools down a little. That is why chickpea soup is great for winter.
Oshi Burida
Have you ever tried lean chickpea dishes? We will try to make Oshi Burida soup. It contains a lot of greenery, which makes it extremely useful. We take:
- 1 tbsp. flour;
- two onions;
- 1 tbsp. chickpea;
- three carrots;
- 5 tbsp. l lean oil;
- garlic - three cloves;
- pepper;
- greens (along a bunch of dill, sage, mint, thyme, cilantro, wild garlic, green basil, rosemary, parsley, tarragon);
- salt.
Prepare this chickpea dish as follows:
- Soak chickpeas in hot water for the night. Next, boil it until cooked. This will take you 2 hours.
- Knead a very cool dough from ¼ st. water and flour. Pour in it ½ tbsp. l lean oil.
- Roll the dough thinly, let it dry a little. Sauté finely chopped garlic, onions, and carrots in vegetable oil.
- Roll the dough and roll carefully the noodles about 1 cm wide.
- In a pan with boiled chickpeas, send thyme, rosemary and sage (and other herbs, if any). Pepper, salt and boil. If there is not enough water in the pan, add boiling water.
- Add the noodles to the boiling soup. Now quickly chop finely greens, send to soup and turn off the heat. Pour into plates, you can add yogurt or sour cream.
Lean sweets
Everyone should learn recipes for lean chickpea dishes. How to cook lean sweets from this pea? Take:
- three tbsp. l nut paste;
- 1 tbsp. dry chickpeas;
- salt (to taste);
- honey - three large spoons;
- a bar of dark chocolate;
- vanillin (to taste).
Prepare this chickpea dish as follows:
- Soak the chickpeas at night, then boil for two hours.
- Grind honey, nut pasta and boiled chickpeas with a blender to a very thick, homogeneous mashed potato. From it you will then form sweets, so adjust the amount of honey in the process of creating a puree.
- Roll balls from mashed potatoes. To prevent dough from sticking to your hands, grease them with vegetable oil. Send the finished balls to the freezer for an hour.
- Melt water chocolate in the bath, do not remove from heat. Dip in it alternately icy balls. You can do this with toothpicks.
Brian chicken
We continue to consider recipes for chickpea dishes. Now find out how to cook chicken brian. You will need:
- one onion;
- 1 tbsp. basmati rice;
- one tomato;
- 0.5 kg chicken;
- 0.5 tbsp. chickpea;
- garlic - four cloves;
- a piece of ginger 1 cm long;
- turmeric - one tsp;
- 3 tbsp. l lean oil;
- 150 g of natural yogurt;
- red pepper, cinnamon, coriander, cumin, cardamom - 0.5 tsp;
- 3 tbsp. l cow's oil;
- parsley;
- 3 tbsp. l almonds.
Cook this delicious chickpea dish like this:
- Wash the chicken in the evening, cut into large pieces, grate with salt and spices, add yogurt, wrap in polyethylene and refrigerate for the night. Pour the chickpeas with water (2 tbsp.) And also leave overnight.
- Rinse the rice and pat dry. Boil chickpeas for an hour. Cut the onions in half rings, grate ginger and garlic on a fine grater, cut the tomato into cubes. Fry it all in vegetable oil, add spices, salt and simmer for three minutes.
- Fry the almonds in cow oil, then add turmeric, rice, salt and curry. Fry for three minutes. Pour boiling water (1.5 tbsp.) And cook for so long that the rice is not completely ready.
- Finely chop the chicken and sauté until almost done. Pour chickpeas to it and fry for a couple more minutes.
- Combine the contents of all pans: first put a layer of chicken, then rice, then vegetable frying, again chicken and rice. Pour in another 0.5 tbsp. hot water.
- Stew so that all the water evaporates. Then turn off the heat, sprinkle with parsley, set aside for 5 minutes. After serve to the table.
Italian pasta
So, you already know what the chickpea recipes are. Now consider the process of preparing Italian pasta - pasta e ceci alla romana. It is also called Roman pasta. This everyday but completely unusual chickpea dish tastes great and flawless in appearance. You will need:
- one sprig of rosemary;
- dry chickpeas - 200 g;
- olive oil - four large spoons;
- garlic - one clove;
- Ditalini paste - 200 g;
- two anchovy fillets;
- pepper and salt (to taste).
This recipe with a photo of chickpea dishes provides for the implementation of such actions:
- Soak the chickpeas at night, rinse in the morning and set to boil. Depending on its grade and quality, this will take you from 30 minutes to 2 hours. After the chickpeas boil for the first time, drain the water, pour a new one and cook in it until tender. This technique will help you get rid of the unpleasant smell of legumes. Is the chickpeas cooked? Turn off the gas, you do not need to drain the water - you still need a decoction.
- Put the oil in a pan with a thick bottom, warm. Add the sliced garlic and lay out the anchovies. Stir and watch - the anchovies should almost dissolve, and the garlic should not brown. Professionals believe that if you missed the moment, and the garlic transformed into brown bast shoes, everything should be thrown away. Therefore, watch vigilantly.
- Once the anchovies have turned into a paste, add chickpeas, pour a glass of sugar, boil.
- Add the paste, salt to taste, stir. If necessary, pour a little liquid (vegetable broth, chickpea broth or plain boiling water) - the paste should be covered with 1 cm water.
- Boil, cover, reduce heat and continue cooking. When the dish is almost ready, turn it off and leave it under the lid. During this time, the dish is saturated with juices and saturated with aromas.
Sprinkle the oil with olive oil, add a sprig of rosemary and pepper, serve. By the way, if you don’t have the opportunity to purchase Ditalini paste, you can use an identical one.
Pumpkin with chickpeas
Carefully study recipes and photos of simple chickpea dishes. After all, in the end, you can please your family with mouth-watering dishes. How to make a pumpkin with chickpeas? We take:
- chickpeas - 200 g;
- garlic - two cloves;
- one banana;
- pumpkin - 400 g;
- caraway seeds - 1 tsp;
- one onion;
- olive oil - three tbsp. l .;
- two tomatoes;
- ginger root - a teaspoon;
- salt;
- turmeric - ½ tsp;
- cinnamon - ½ tsp;
- ground pepper black;
- ½ tsp ground coriander;
- ½ tsp curry.
Cook this simple chickpea dish like this:
- Pour cold water over chickpeas at night, then boil in salt water for 2 hours. Then flip into a colander and refrigerate. To get 200 g of boiled chickpeas you need to take 100 g of dry.
- Make cuts on the tomatoes, pour boiling water.
- Cut the onions in half rings, fry until transparent in oil.
- Add crushed ginger and garlic, fry for two minutes.
- Remove the peel from the tomatoes, cut them into cubes and send them to the pan.
- Add cinnamon, coriander, curry, cumin and turmeric, simmer for 3 minutes on low heat.
- Cut the pumpkin into large cubes and add to the vegetables. Pour 2/3 tbsp. water and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Now pour the chickpeas, pepper and salt as you like, cover and simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Peel a banana, cut into circles, fry until golden brown in a hot pan.
- Arrange the dish on plates, garnish with banana slices on top.
Serve with fresh cilantro leaves.
Pumpkin Curry with Zucchini and Chickpeas
Consider another recipe for a simple and tasty chickpea dish. Take:
- two zucchini;
- one clove of garlic;
- 400 g chickpeas;
- cauliflower - half a kilo;
- 500 g pumpkin;
- one onion;
- 1 tbsp. lentils red;
- curry - two tsp;
- 1 tbsp. l lean oil;
- 1 liter of vegetable broth;
- fresh cilantro (coriander) to taste.
Cooking process:
- Peel the raw pumpkin and cut into 3x3 cm cubes.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large saucepan. Send chopped onion, curry, garlic, pumpkin into it and cook over high heat for three minutes, stirring constantly.
- Pour the vegetable broth into the pan, add canned (or pre-cooked) lentils, boil.
- Cook over moderate heat for another five minutes. The pumpkin should be soft.
- Cut the zucchini into cubes, divide the cauliflower into inflorescences and pour all this together with pre-cooked chickpeas into a pan. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the stove, salt and pepper.
Sprinkle the dish with fresh coriander and serve.
Chickpea cutlets with carrots
Do you like the recipes we provided? Chickpea dishes are simple and easy to prepare. To create chickpea cutlets with carrots, you need to have:
- one carrot;
- one onion;
- 100 g chickpeas;
- salt;
- one clove of garlic;
- ground black pepper.
This recipe stipulates the following steps:
- Soak chickpeas in cool water overnight.
- Turn the soaked chickpeas through a meat grinder or blender.
- Add carrots, onions and garlic.
- Blind from the resulting mass of patties and fry in olive or any other lean oil.
Vegetarian pilaf with chickpeas
To create this dish, take:
- 100 ml of vegetable oil;
- 2 tbsp. water;
- half the onion head;
- a glass of rice;
- half a carrot;
- ½ tbsp chickpea;
- barberry - one large spoon;
- 1 tsp cumin;
- three cloves of garlic;
- ground pepper black;
- sea salt (to taste).
Cook this dish as follows:
- Coarsely chop the onion.
- Grate the carrots.
- Boil chickpeas in advance until half ready.
- Pour oil into a deep skillet so that it covers the bottom.
- First put a layer of onions, then carrots, and then chickpeas.
- Sprinkle rice on top, add spices.
- Hide the unpeeled garlic cloves in the pilaf in several places. This will give the dish a delicate aroma and taste.
- Fill everything with water (2 tbsp.) And cook until tender.
Fried chickpeas
To create this dish we take:
- three tomatoes;
- one onion;
- a teaspoon of paprika;
- 500 g chickpeas;
- salt;
- 100 g of cow's butter;
- quarter tsp soda;
- half pork sausage with garlic.
This dish needs to be prepared like this:
- Pour peas into a large bowl, fill with warm water, add a pinch of salt and soda. Set aside for 12 hours.
- Drain the water, rinse the peas. Boil salt water in a saucepan. Pour peas there, cover with a lid. Reduce the heat to moderate and cook for 3 hours so that the peas become soft.
- Chop the tomatoes and onions finely. Peel the sausage from the skin and chop finely.
- Melt the butter in a skillet, pour onion and cook for 5 minutes over low heat, stirring until it becomes transparent. Pour the tomatoes and cook for another 10 minutes, kneading them with a spatula. Next, stir in the chorizo and paprika, remove the pan from the stove.
- Throw the peas in a colander, and then send them to the pan. Cook for five minutes over high heat, stirring constantly. Serve right away.
Fade away
Take:
- five tomatoes;
- one onion;
- 500 g of beef;
- one bell pepper;
- 400 g chickpeas;
- salt (to taste);
- three cloves of garlic;
- half a chili pepper;
- ground red pepper (to taste);
- 70 g melted butter;
- ground black pepper.
Follow these steps:
- Soak chickpeas in cold water for a day (possible for 12 hours). As soon as it swells 2-3 times, rinse it under cold water.
- Cut beef into tiny cubes and fry in melted or cow butter until brown, toasted in a cauldron or deep skillet. Beef can be replaced with lamb.
- Pour boiling water over the tomatoes.
- Add chickpeas to the roasted beef. Stir constantly, make sure that the water evaporates. Next, fry the beef with chickpeas for 7 minutes.
- Pour the fried foods with water so that it completely covers the chickpeas. Boil, cover, make low heat and simmer for about an hour. If necessary, sometimes add water.
- Peel the tomatoes, cut them into cubes. Dice the Bulgarian red pepper too, and the chili pepper in circles.
- Add tomatoes to the stew, stir. Add pepper, salt, chili pepper, paprika, stir again. Pour in a little water and simmer over moderate heat for half an hour under the lid.
- Cut the onion into half rings, rinse with cold water, squeeze, pepper and salt. Set aside.
- When the dish is extinguished a second time (the water should boil completely), add chopped garlic to it, stir and turn off the burner.
Arrange the chickpeas and meat in plates, placing the onions with the edge.
Vedic sweets
To create this amazing dish we take:
- 100 g of roasted almonds;
- 15 g vanilla sugar;
- 150 g chickpeas;
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon;
- 3 tbsp. l sunflower seeds;
- honey - 2 tbsp. l
Cook this dish as follows:
- Soak chickpeas in water for 12 hours. Then drain the water, rinse the peas, boil for an hour and dry on a towel.
- If you want, you can peel the chickpeas yourself, so that the future mixture is more tender.
- Mix all the ingredients in a blender so that a friable mass is obtained that is identical to a shortcrust pastry.
- Roll the balls from the resulting mass. You can also concoct candies using cookie cutters.
Eat with pleasure!