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Sunday Staples: Roasted Chickpeas

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Jacquelyn Clark

We use Sundays to do meal prep of sorts for the week. Any given Sunday usually involves some type of cooking, baking, chopping, etc. for the week’s planned meals. Lately, I am obsessed with chickpeas. WW (f/n/a Weight Watchers) paired with Biena, a food company, and introduced dried chickpeas. The salted flavor is amazing. I read the ingredients on one of the packages after weeks of buying my supply and concluded I could make my own chickpeas at home. Easy, right?  So I tried. And failed. They were mushy and not crunchy at all.  So I tried again. And failed again. They were crunchy but with no flavor. Third time’s the charm, right? RIGHT! Here is what I figured out:

  • Use raw chickpeas and make them yourself. Follow the directions on the bag. Don’t use canned.
  • Air dry the cooked chickpeas for a couple of hours on paper towels.
  • Be sure to roast the chickpeas in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
  • Turn off the oven. Leave the cooked, mixed chickpeas in the oven overnight.

Allrecipes.com had the best recipe (I thought) to use as the base for my dried chickpeas. The recipe is here.  As I said I tweaked the recipe.

Start with one bag of raw chickpeas and cook according to the directions. I use the quick soak method and then I cook the chickpeas on the stovetop.

Cooking Chickpeas       Draining Chickpeas

I lay all of the cooked chickpeas out on paper towels, in a single layer. Then I let them dry for about two hours.

Dry chickpeas on paper towels

I transfer them to a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper – in a single layer. Then I follow the allrecipes recipe for cooking. 400 degrees. 40 minutes. Shake every 10-15 minutes.

Turn off oven when the cooking time expires. When they are done, I use the parchment paper as a slide to transfer the chickpeas to a large mixing bowl. I use my olive oil sprayer to spray the chickpeas with olive oil and liberally sprinkle with salt. Mix. Taste. (I usually have Steve taste test for me since he has much higher salt tolerance than I do!). When they are to our liking, I spread them back out in a single layer on the used parchment paper on the baking sheet and return them to the oven. Leave them overnight in the oven (yes, the oven is off). Then wake up to perfect chickpeas! Easy, right?  And delicious!

Chickpeas in mason jar
Store your chickpeas in mason jars.

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