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Chickpeas recipes

Whole, blended and ground into flour. 109 recipes on the site call for chickpeas.

Chickpeas is in 109 recipes from 22 cuisines, among them 38 dinners, 34 appetisers and small plates, 12 healthy dishes and 11 lunches. The cuisines that use it most here are Indian (40), Middle Eastern (11), American (8) and Tunisian (8). Of these, 23 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Beetroot Hummus (10 min), Coronation Chickpea Sandwich (10 min) and Pumpkin Hummus (10 min). For 31, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 73 easy, 29 medium and 7 hard.

As written, 82 are vegetarian, 49 vegan, 44 gluten-free and 60 dairy-free. Another 5 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Chickpeas recipes — all 109 recipes

Silky Hummus
Middle EasternEditor’s Pick
Prep
15m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Silky Hummus

Silky, pourable hummus with far more tahini than most recipes dare, whipped for five minutes with ice water. Peeling…

9 hr · Easy
Crispy Falafel
Middle EasternFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Crispy Falafel

Made only from soaked dried chickpeas — never tinned, never cooked — so the outside shatters and the inside stays…

20 hr · Medium
Paneer Tikka
IndianFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Paneer Tikka

Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…

105 min · Easy
Chana Masala
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Healthy

Chana Masala

A punchy North Indian chickpea curry, sour with amchur and tamarind and darkened by a long-fried onion base…

45 min · Easy
Chole Bhature
Indian
Prep
30m
Cook
40m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Chole Bhature

Punjab's great weekend breakfast: dark, tangy chickpeas served with balloon-like fried bread. The chana is blackened…

11–12.5 hr · Medium
Seekh Kebab
Pakistani
Prep
25m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Seekh Kebab

Spiced minced lamb moulded onto skewers and cooked over coals, kept juicy by fat, papaya paste and a rest in the…

2 hr · Easy
Vada Pav
Indian
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Vada Pav

A spiced potato fritter in a soft bun with three chutneys and fried green chillies. Mumbai's street sandwich, sold…

45 min+ · Easy
Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl
International
Prep
20m
Cook
30m
Serves
2
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Healthy

Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl

Roasted vegetables, a grain, a pulse and something green in one bowl, held together by a tahini dressing loosened…

50–55 min · Easy
Vegetable Pakoras
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Vegetable Pakoras

Onion, potato and spinach bound in a spiced gram flour batter and fried into craggy, shatteringly crisp clusters…

30 min · Easy
Egyptian Koshari
Egyptian
Prep
25m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Healthy

Egyptian Koshari

Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…

70 min · Medium
Harira Soup
Moroccan
Prep
20m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Healthy

Harira Soup

The Moroccan soup traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan: lentils, chickpeas and tomato thickened with…

80 min · Easy
Trinidadian Doubles
Trinidadian
Prep
90m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Breakfast

Trinidadian Doubles

Two pieces of soft fried bara sandwiching curried chickpeas, with tamarind, cucumber chutney and pepper sauce…

11.5 hr · Medium
Ash Reshteh
Persian
Prep
30m
Cook
131m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Ash Reshteh

A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.

10.5 hr · Medium
Chickpea Socca
French
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chickpea Socca

A single thick pancake of chickpea flour, olive oil and water, baked fierce in a heavy pan until the edges blister —…

55 min–4.5 hr · Easy
Italian Chopped Salad
Italian
Prep
25m
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0m
Serves
6
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Healthy

Italian Chopped Salad

Salami, provolone, chickpeas and pepperoncini chopped small under a red wine vinaigrette sharp enough to stand up to…

25 min · Easy
Quick Chickpea Curry
Indian
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Quick Chickpea Curry

A tin of chickpeas, a tin of tomatoes and a proper spice base, done in half an hour. The onions do not get twenty…

30 min · Easy
Smashed Chickpea Sandwich
American
Prep
12m
Cook
0m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Smashed Chickpea Sandwich

Chickpeas crushed with tahini, lemon and capers into something with the texture of a tuna mayo but none of the fish…

12 min · Easy
Chana Chaat
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
0m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Chana Chaat

Chickpeas tossed with raw onion, tomato, chaat masala and tamarind, assembled in ten minutes and eaten within…

20 min · Easy
AI-generated illustration of Balila
Lebanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Balila

Warm chickpeas in their own liquor with cumin, garlic and lemon. Sold from carts for breakfast and about as simple…

25 min · Easy
Maghmour
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Maghmour

Aubergine and chickpeas stewed down in tomato and garlic until everything collapses. Often called Lebanese moussaka…

65–70 min+ · Easy
Hummus Beiruti
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
0m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Hummus Beiruti

The rougher city version: chickpeas left coarse, cut through with parsley, chilli and pickle. Made to be eaten as a…

20 min · Easy
Lablabi
Tunisian
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Lablabi

Chickpeas in a cumin and garlic broth poured over torn stale bread, with a raw egg cracked in and stirred through…

45 min · Easy
Hlelem
Tunisian
Prep
25m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Lunch

Hlelem

A thick soup of hand-broken noodles, three kinds of bean and a lot of greens, red with harissa. Winter food from the…

9.5 hr · Medium
Bsissa
Tunisian
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
8
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Breakfast

Bsissa

Roasted barley and chickpea flour with fennel and coriander seed, stirred into oil and water or milk. Eaten for…

30 min+ · Easy
Couscous Tunisien
Tunisian
Prep
35m
Cook
90m
Serves
8
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Dinner

Couscous Tunisien

Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. The…

2 hr · Medium
Mermez
Tunisian
Prep
20m
Cook
105m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Mermez

Lamb and chickpeas in a thin red broth with a lot of onion, poured over bread or couscous. The plainest of the…

2 hr · Easy
Osbane
Tunisian
Prep
60m
Cook
75m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Osbane

Sausage casings filled with rice, offal, herbs and a great deal of chard, simmered and then sliced into a stew. The…

2.5 hr · Hard
Berkoukes
Tunisian
Prep
25m
Cook
75m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Berkoukes

Hand-rolled semolina pearls the size of peppercorns, cooked in a lamb and vegetable broth. Larger than couscous…

100 min · Medium
AI-generated illustration of Madfouna
Tunisian
Prep
35m
Cook
75m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Madfouna

Lamb and chard buried under a lid of dough and baked, so the meat steams in its own juices. Madfouna means buried…

110 min · Medium
Panelle
Italian
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Panelle

Chickpea flour cooked into a paste, set flat, cut into squares and fried. Palermo eats them in a bread roll, which…

45 min+ · Easy
Pasta e Ceci
Italian
Prep
15m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Pasta e Ceci

Chickpeas and broken pasta cooked into a thick soup with rosemary. Roman, cheap, and better than the sum of its…

60 min · Easy
Farinata
Italian
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Farinata

A chickpea flour pancake baked screaming hot in a copper pan until the top blisters. Genoa eats it standing up, with…

4.5 hr · Easy
Fish Tikka
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Fish Tikka

Firm white fish in a yoghurt and carom seed marinade, charred at the edges. Thirty-five minutes and no tandoor…

55 min · Easy
Pani Puri
Indian
Prep
40m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Pani Puri

Hollow crisp spheres filled with spiced water, potato and chickpea, eaten whole in one go. India's most-loved street…

2 hr+ · Hard
Dhokla
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Dhokla

A steamed savoury sponge of gram flour, sharp with lemon and sweet with a sugar tempering. Gujarat's teatime, and…

60 min · Medium
Shiro Wat
Ethiopian
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Shiro Wat

Toasted chickpea flour whisked into a spiced stew that thickens as you stir. On the table in half an hour.

35 min · Easy
Fattet Hummus
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Fattet Hummus

Crisp torn bread under warm chickpeas under garlicky yoghurt, finished with browned butter and pine nuts. Assembled…

35 min · Easy
Paneer Tikka Masala
Indian
Prep
25m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Paneer Tikka Masala

Paneer charred under a grill first, then folded into a tomato gravy. The char is what separates it from every other…

90 min · Medium
Samosa Chaat
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Samosa Chaat

A samosa crushed under chickpea curry, yoghurt and three chutneys. Twenty-five minutes if the samosas are bought.

25 min · Easy
Mysore Pak
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Mysore Pak

Gram flour cooked with ghee and sugar until it sets porous and melts on contact. Forty-five minutes, and the pour is…

45 min+ · Medium
Besan Ladoo
Indian
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Besan Ladoo

Gram flour roasted slowly in ghee until it smells of biscuits, then rolled into balls with sugar. Forty minutes…

55 min+ · Easy
AI-generated illustration of Kumara and Coconut Curry
New Zealand
Prep
15m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kumara and Coconut Curry

Orange kumara and chickpeas simmered in coconut milk with red curry paste and finished with spinach and lime…

45 min · Easy
Onion Bhajis
Indian
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Onion Bhajis

Sliced onion bound with spiced gram flour batter and fried into crisp, lacy golden clusters. The curry house…

55 min · Medium
Kadhi Pakora
Indian
Prep
30m
Cook
60m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kadhi Pakora

Crisp onion fritters in a tangy Punjabi curry of yoghurt and gram flour, finished with a spiced ghee tadka. Comfort…

90 min · Medium
Halwa Puri
Pakistani
Prep
60m
Cook
60m
Serves
8
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Breakfast

Halwa Puri

The Pakistani weekend breakfast: puffed fried bread, a golden semolina halwa and a spiced chickpea curry. Sweet…

2.5 hr · Hard
Chotpoti
Bangladeshi
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chotpoti

A spicy, tangy Bangladeshi street snack of chickpeas and potato in a tamarind gravy, topped with egg, raw onion…

55 min · Easy
Mohinga
Burmese
Prep
30m
Cook
55m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Mohinga

Rice noodles in a golden fish and lemongrass broth thickened with chickpea flour, topped with boiled egg, coriander…

85 min · Medium
Ohn No Khao Swè
Burmese
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Ohn No Khao Swè

Egg noodles and chicken in a rich, golden coconut broth thickened with chickpea flour, topped with boiled egg…

65 min · Medium

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