Recipes with pot chickpeas
Recipes with pot chickpeas
Canned legumes are a healthy processed food that makes our lives much easier. Discover all the quick and delicious recipes that you can make with already boiled chickpeas.
Chickpeas already cooked
Chickpeas already cooked
By not having to cook, pot chickpeas save you a lot of time and give you a lot of play, as you will see in the recipes that we give you below. The only thing you should bear in mind is that, before using them, it is recommended to drain them and even run them through water to eliminate the liquid that accompanies them, since it usually contains a lot of salt as well as other condiments and preservatives.
Chickpea salad
Chickpea salad
One of the easiest recipes is to make a salad with them. You only need a pot of chickpeas, a couple of carrots, a red and a green pepper, a purple onion, and a handful of green leaves (spinach sprouts or arugula, for example). Wash it and cut everything into small cubes, mix it in a bowl and season it with a little oil, vinegar, salt and the spices that you like the most.
Chickpea cream
Chickpea cream
Apart from the classic leek, zucchini and pumpkin creams, you can also make one with legumes like this one with cooked chickpeas that we like so much at Clara. In addition to being very nutritious thanks to this rich legume, it is also very satiating due to the enormous contribution of fiber that all its vegetables represent.
See recipe.
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Chickpeas with spinach and cod
Chickpeas with spinach and cod
Another super easy and sooooo nutty salad is this one made with cooked chickpeas, baby spinach, desalted cod and quail eggs. You just have to mix the drained chickpeas with the washed spinach shoots, a few strips of desalted cod and a couple of cooked quail eggs per person. Easy, delicious, appetizing and full of energy.
Sauteed spinach with chickpeas
Sauteed spinach with chickpeas
You can also make the classic spinach and chickpea stew in an easy and ultra-fast version. You just have to sauté some ajitos in a large skillet, add a bag of washed spinach and sauté them too. Finally add half a pot of cooked chickpeas and mix well. Yes Yes. It is done.
Super light hummus
Super light hummus
First, as a light dinner or for a succulent snack … Do you dare to make your own hummus? It is nothing more than a simple, very healthy chickpea puree, very easy to make, and thanks to our recipe, very light. Also, if you do it, you control what you put in and it is even healthier.
See recipe.
Eggplant and hummus timbale
Eggplant and hummus timbale
Hummus is not just for diperation. You can also use it, as in this aubergine timbale, as a filling dough. Original and simply delicious
See recipe.
Chickpea and vegetable soup
Chickpea and vegetable soup
Take a couple of carrots, a zucchini and three sticks of celery. Peel them, wash them and cut them into small cubes, reserving a few strips of zucchini to decorate. In a saucepan, sauté the cubes, salt and pepper, add ¾ l of water or vegetable broth and cook for 15 min. Add 50 g of roasted pepper cut into cubes, a pot of cooked and drained chickpeas and cook for 5 more minutes. Decorate with the zucchini strips that you had reserved.
Spiced chickpeas
Spiced chickpeas
It is one of the proposals with chickpeas from our blogger Delicious Martha. You just have to drain some chickpeas from the pot, mix them with a little oil or lemon juice and your favorite spices, and bake them for 40 minutes at 200º.
Roasted chickpeas with green sprouts
Roasted chickpeas with green sprouts
Sauté the cooked and drained chickpeas with a little oil, salt and aromatic herbs. Let it cook covered for 3-4 minutes, sautéing from time to time, until the chickpeas are golden. Add a couple of tomatoes, peeled and diced. Let it cook until there is no liquid left. In another skillet, brown thick slices of red onion. And finally it serves everything together with green sprouts and chopped walnuts.
Chickpea salad on pita bread
Chickpea salad on pita bread
We had already told you that a good idea to eat more legumes is to make it in a salad and here is another example. If you want to give it a much more exotic touch, serve it on pita bread as in this recipe for chickpea salad with vegetables and fresh cheese. It is a vegetarian version of the typical shawarma, but very balanced and energetic thanks to the substitution of meat for chickpeas.
See recipe.
Vegetables with chickpeas and rice
Vegetables with chickpeas and rice
You just have to cook 100 g of long grain rice and, once cooked, mix it with a pot of cooked and drained chickpeas, and the vegetables you like the most (zucchini, carrots, aubergines, peppers …) cut into sticks and sautéed with a thread of oil.
Chickpeas with tomatoes and tuna
Chickpeas with tomatoes and tuna
You only need a pot of cooked chickpeas, a couple of cans of natural tuna, 20 g of cherry tomatoes, two chives, chives, oil, salt and pepper. Drain the chickpeas and tuna, and mix them with the washed tomatoes, the julienne onion and the chopped chives. Season to taste and voila. To top it off, you can add black or green olives, better pitted. And if you want it to spread more, add boiled egg.
Pasta salad
Pasta salad
With a little more than a quarter of a pot of cooked chickpeas, some spirals and vegetables, you have this delicious pasta salad that is almost fattening. The trick? No more than 60 g of pasta per person and cooking vegetables on the grill or steamed, which means reducing the amount of fat used to a minimum.
See recipe.
Chickpea burger
Chickpea burger
It's another of Delicious Martha's ideas. Grind chickpeas with piquillo peppers, onion, garlic, parsley, turmeric and other spices, and breadcrumbs and egg to bind; fry and serve like any burger.
Chickpeas have many properties: they are rich in fiber, have a high nutritional value and, as you have seen in the recipes in the gallery, super versatile. Adding them to our recipe book in salads, creams, soups, sautéed with vegetables, crushed … are some of the good ideas to incorporate more legumes into the diet, one of the foods that is recommended to eat regularly.
Are pot chickpeas good?
Yes. Like other legumes, chickpeas require a long time to soak and cook. But thanks to the canning jars and the establishments that sell pulses in bulk already cooked, you can save a lot of time without losing any of their properties. The only thing you should keep in mind when cooking with them is to remove the accompanying water well, since it usually contains excess salt, as well as other seasonings and preservatives.
How to cook chickpeas?
If you still want to cook them yourself, these are the keys so that they remain whole, but tender at the same time.
Soaking. It is necessary for them to swell and soften. The water should be warm and cover them completely (keep in mind that they will double in volume). It is convenient to leave them for 12 hours although if you add 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate, you can reduce that time to 8 hours.
- What if you forgot to soak them? Cook them for 1 hour and leave them in the same water for another hour.
The cooking water. Unlike other legumes, chickpeas are cooked starting from boiling water, and if more needs to be added, it should also be very hot.
- If you want to give them more flavor … in addition to salt, add an onion, 2 garlic, bay leaf and peppercorns to the cooking water.
The cooking time. It will depend on the type of chickpea and the pot. The traditional way is to cook them for 10 minutes over high heat, change the water and simmer them for 2 to 2 and a half hours, seasoning them at the end.
- If you are going to add them to a stew or soup … leave them a little al dente so that with the additional boiling of the stew they do not end up overcooked.
The conservation. Once cooked, you can store them drained or with a little of the cooking broth in a container with a lid, tightly closed, in the fridge for up to 3 days. But you can also freeze them. You just have to drain them very well, and store them in tightly closed freezer bags.
Clara trick
To avoid flatulence …
If you suffer from gas, but do not want to give up eating chickpeas, a trick to reduce flatulence is to remove the skin once cooked.
If you want more ideas, discover the proposals for cooking chickpeas that Delicious Martha teaches us.
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