Ingredients ½ cup dried chickpeas 5 tablespoons lemon juice 4 tablespoons pure olive oil 2 tablespoons tahini (sesame seed paste) 4 large cloves garlic ¾ teaspoon salt Procedure Soak chickpeas overnight. Drain, rinse, and place chickpeas in saucepan. Just barely…
Khichuri is a Bengali dish once considered comfort food for the poor but now a delicacy served warm in the monsoon rain. Like the similar khichdi, the core ingredients are rice and lentils, but different variations exist, some adding vegetables,…
Cholley, also chole, choley, cholay, white cholay, chana, channa, or chana masala, is a popular and versatile Indian and Pakistani chickpea dish. It is commonly cooked in Northern India (especially Punjab) and Pakistan for breakfast, but it is also regularly…
El Pastel de Arroz (rice tamale) is typical dish from Cartagena, Colombia. It is very common to find it on Sundays at the beach or as a Christmas Eve favourite. Ingredients Rice 1½ cups rice ½ cup white vinegar 6…
Falafel is a fritter popular in Mediterranean cuisine. It is typically fried, but may also be baked. It always consists of one or more types of beans; usually fava beans or chickpeas. In some regional varieties parsley is added too.…
Spicy chickpeas make a good fall-back meal using ingredients that many pantries will often have lying in a dusty corner, but that are also cheap to pick up. Ingredients 250 g canned chickpeas 2 tbsp oil 2 tsp Dijon mustard…
Potato masala (Tamil: uralai kizhangu masala) is a potato dish often served alongside roti or folded inside a dosa. The dosa and aloo masala combination, widely eaten in South India, is known as masala dosa. Coconut chutney is a common…
Ingredients ½ cup toor dal 2 cups water 2 handfuls of methi leaves (only the leaves without the tender stem) 3 tomatoes 1 big onion 1 pinch of turmeric powder 1–2 green chillis, sliced 10 whole black peppercorns 1 small…
Fast and cheap, this soup will warm you on a cold day! Ingredients 3 cans (45 oz / 1.26 kg) garbanzo beans, divided 4½ cups vegetable broth or water (or a combination), divided 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 heaping cups…
This meatloaf recipe stretches meat using beans or chickpeas. It also uses aquafaba (the liquid from the canned beans or chickpeas) in place of an egg, which reduces both waste and the fat content of the meatloaf. Ingredients 1 can…
Eggplant and chickpea skillet is a colorful and tasty dish suitable for vegans. It is important to use fresh basil in this recipe. Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 1 green bell pepper, diced 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 small eggplant…
Hummus is a nutritious dip originating from the Middle East. It is called revythosaláta (ρεβυθοσαλάτα) in Greek. Ingredients 3 cups raw dried chickpeas (or skip the soaking and cooking steps, and use 7 cups of drained tinned/canned chickpeas) 9 cups…