Chickpeas are the ultimate pantry ingredient. A real culinary workhorse. They’re filling, protein-rich, and a quick way to bulk out salads, bowls, and stews. They’re just as great roasted until crisp or blended into a creamy smooth dip or sandwich spread. These are the chickpea recipes I come back to.
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Crispy Chickpeas & Small Plates
Pop in your mouth, snacky chickpea recipes that are easy to pull together.
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Crispy Chickpeas
Crispy roasted chickpeas are one of my favorite ways to add crunch and a bit of protein to salads, bowls, and roasted vegetables. There are a few tricks to getting…
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Turmeric Chickpeas
Turmeric chickpeas, you can use them in all sorts of things! This includes your favorite hummus, salads, and other chickpea creations.
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Asparagus Ribbon Salad with Crispy Chickpeas and Hot Honey
Shaving asparagus into ribbons turns it into something completely different — delicate, tender, and perfect for a big spring salad.
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Chickpea Salad Sandwich
The chickpea salad sandwich filling to make in bulk for easy lunches and snacks all week. A perfect vegetarian or vegan sandwich option.
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Bar Tartine Cauliflower Salad (with Chickpeas)
A beautiful cauliflower salad from the Bar Tartine cookbook – a crunchy, hearty mixture of cauliflower, seeds, chiles, radishes, chickpeas, and green onions slathered in an enveloping garlicky yogurt dressing.
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Quinoa Salad (with Chickpeas)
A favorite quinoa salad punctuated with crunchy cucumbers and toasted cashews. There’s creamy feta, wisps of arugula, flecks of red onion and herbs, and a special ginger-curry dressing. So delicious!
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An Ideal Lunch Salad (with Chickpeas)
There’s all sorts of good stuff in this salad – chickpeas, celery, black olives, pepitas, avocado, blanched broccoli. Full of crunch & substance.
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Moroccan Carrot and Chickpea Salad
A beauty of a carrot salad – tricked out with chickpeas, chunks of dried pluots, sliced almonds, and a toasted cumin dressing. Thank you Diane Morgan.
Chickpea Bowls & Skillet Meals
Chickpeas are a great foundation ingredient, especially for skillet meals and bowls where they play a major role.
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Turmeric Chickpeas with Garlic Tahini
A quick lunch. And a compelling reason to always keep turmeric chickpeas on hand!
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Ultimate Veggie Burger (with Chickpeas)
The ultimate veggie burger recipe made with a secret trick, garbanzo beans, cilantro, onions, lemon zest, eggs, and bread crumbs.
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Lemony Chickpea Stir-fry
A tasty, quick, and easy stir-fry recipe featuring golden crusted, pan-fried chickpeas, chopped kale, summer squash, tofu, and a bit of lemon zest.
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A Really Good Chana Masala
There are a lot of chana masala recipes out there that are perfectly good, but this is the chana masala you should make tonight – a Technicolor version of chana masala.
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Green Falafel Bowl
The star of this show is the golden-crusted, green spinach falafel. Lemon-flecked, made with chickpeas, you see them tucked into this rainbow assortment of hummus, pita, kale, cucumber, and carrots.
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Instant Pot Chickpea Cauliflower Korma
An Insta-friendly riff on the Chickpea Cauliflower Korma recipe in Jennifer Iserloh’s The Healing Slow Cooker – chickpeas, cauliflower, combined with a not-shy simmer sauce.
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Rice Pilaf (with Chickpeas)
An all-star, homemade rice pilaf focused on building flavor throughout the cooking process. This one is made with butter, basmati, toasted nuts, caramelized onions and fragrant spices. One pot.
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Pan-fried Chickpea Salad
A salad made by pan-frying chickpeas with leeks and a bit of garlic. The creamy dressing is made with plain yogurt and curry powder, and the salad is finished off with plenty of chopped cilantro and chopped red onion.
Chickpea Soups & Stews
Good things happen when chickpeas are added to a hearty soup or stew – adding body, texture, and staying power.
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Chickpea & Rice Soup with Garlic Chile Oil
A simple, chunky rice soup, studded with lots of chickpeas, flecked with kale, and drizzled with a vibrant garlic-chile oil. It has peanuts. It has a dusting of turmeric.
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Spicy Chickpea and Bulgur Soup
Inspired by a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe in Plenty More a seductive, red harissa broth fragrant with cumin, coriander, and caraway, and enough chickpeas and bulgur to make it work as a main course. An herb-whipped feta is the crowning dollop.
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Persian New Year Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
An amazing Persian New Year Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh) inspired by a version in Greg & Lucy Malouf’s beautiful book, Saraban. At its core, this is a celebratory chickpea, bean and noodle soup featuring thin egg noodles swimming in a fragrant broth spiced with turmeric, cumin, chiles, and black pepper. Loaded with spinach and herbs, you serve it topped with walnuts, caramelized onions, and a dollop of something creamy. It’s a stunner.
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Roasted Tomato & Sourdough Soup (with Chickpeas)
If you have both tomatoes and sourdough on hand, consider this. A spicy, saffron-smacked take on pappa al pomodoro, the bread-thickened Tuscan classic.
Chickpea Pasta & Grain Dishes
A favorite category, chickpeas find their way into a wide range of pastas, rice, and grain bowls in my kitchen. These are a few to try.
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Spicy Chickpea Pasta Bowls
A colorful pasta bowl bonanza featuring a glossy, smooth chickpea harissa sauce and loads of crunchy cucumbers, cashews and fried onions. The definition of a vibrant, exciting one-bowl meal!
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Instant Pot Herbed Chickpea Plov
If you love robust one-pot rice dishes, and you own an Instant Pot, this recipe is for you. It has rice, and chickpeas, fragrant spices, spinach, herbs, saffron, garlic, and olives.
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Cherry Tomato Couscous (with Chickpeas)
Cherry tomatoes, cucumber, chopped basil, and chickpeas tossed with couscous, olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice. Finished with a bit of feta.
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Chickpea Hot Pot
A fast-cooking bulgur cooks in a light orange-juice accented broth. Plenty of chickpeas, tiny cauliflower pieces, onions, and greens add texture and substance to the hearty pot.
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Golden Beet Hummus
A lightened-up hummus – reining in the tahini and oil a bit. Billowy and smooth, it’s a boosted hummus for everyday, all-day w/ golden beets, turmeric, and chickpeas.
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Melissa Clark’s Instant Pot Hummus (with Variations)
Melissa Clark’s recipe results in a silky smooth hummus. Once you nail down the method, the variations you can do are endless.
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Hummus en Fuego
A beautiful, spicy hummus recipe made from pureed garbanzo beans, toasted walnuts, and spicy crushed red pepper oil finished with a few chopped olives and a bit of cilantro.
Chickpea Baking & More
Chickpeas are surprisingly versatile – their cooking liquid and chickpea flour can be used in baking and other preparations. Some ideas to explore.
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Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies
From The Miller’s Daughter cookbook, these chocolate-flecked cookies are made with chickpea flour, tahini, and brown sugar for a brilliant twist on peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. The texture is crisp at the edges and soft-centered with oozy puddles of chocolate throughout.
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How to Make Simple Vegan Mayo
A simple vegan mayo to use in all your favorite potato salads, macaroni salads, and coleslaw this summer. Made with the liquid from a can of chickpeas (aquafaba).
Chickpeas are a favorite beans to cook with, they’re super approachable, affordable, a bit nutty, and delicious. If you’re looking for more ideas, explore all my bean recipes.
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