Chickpeas! What a fantastic food! We love chickpeas and often just throw them in a pan, or in a soup, or in the oven! 🙂
These pulses are a great source of protein and also contain a healthy dose of iron! They also contain magnesium, potassium, folic acid, Vitamin B6 and calcium! What’s not to like! 😛
If you’ve never roasted chickpeas before you are missing something great! Now, you can of course add any of your favourite spices or herbs to your chickpeas! Make them more Italian flavoured with oregano, sage, rosemary and basil? Choose Indian flavours such as turmeric, coriander, cumin and chilli? Or, go with these slightly spicy Cajun chickpeas? (our favourite)!
We have roasted a LOT of chickpeas in our time! Tinned chickpeas and dried soaked overnight chickpeas. We have had tins of fat bursting out of their skins chickpeas, and tins of tight little balls which look like they’ve just been picked chickpeas (we’ve grown our own chickpeas too)! Sometimes we roast them just with salt and pepper, sometimes with spices, sometimes with liquid, sometimes without. You can play with your ingredients and see what suits you best! Cook the chickpeas with oil, oil spray or neither. Roast them on a low heat, or or a hot heat, make them crunchy or leave them soft. The recipe below is just one to get you inspired to try them!
These are literally throw in the oven chickpeas, spiced but not too spicy, crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle! Eat them as they are (preferably not straight off the tray by the handful)! or add them to your salad, throw them on your soup, add them to a sandwich or just have them as a side dish to whatever else you are eating! Just… make sure you make them! 😀
I’ve added these chickpeas to our Back to Basics Series as they are something which are so simple to us, but many people have never tried making themselves. We love roasted chickpeas and hope you will do too!
Spiced chickpeas roasted until crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. Perfect!
- 2 x 400g tins chickpeas
- 1 teaspoon cajun spice
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- salt to taste
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Drain one tin of chickpeas, leave the other tin whole. Tip them all on to a baking tray.
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Sprinkle over the Cajun, cumin, paprika, pepper and salt.
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Using your hands (yes, it's messy), mix everything together well.
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Roast in the oven on Gas Mark 6 (400f / 200c) for 15-30 minutes.
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Cook until the chickpeas are at your desired consistency. If you like them crunchier, leave them in longer, if you prefer them softer, take them out sooner! Enjoy!
What are you up to this weekend? It is most certainly starting to get festive around here! If you’re at a loose end, why not visit one of the many Christmas Fayre’s or Markets that have started already? Have a look at these ones!
Bury St. Edmunds Christmas Fayre this weekend only (21st-24th Nov 2019).
Canterbury Christmas Market on from now until Christmas Eve 2019.
Gloucester Victorian Christmas market running until 24th November 2019.
Liverpool Christmas Market from now until 23rd December 2019.
London Winter Wonderland from now until 5th January 2020.
Manchester Christmas Markets various dates from now until 21/22 Dec 2019.
Whatever you’re up to, make sure to get some YOU time (a.k.a. ME time!). Have some time out just for you – whether it’s reading a book, catching up on your favourite tv show, baking some mince pies or having a long soak in the bath… do something for you!
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Have a great weekend!
Speak soon
Laurena x