Recipes using chickpeas
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Favourite lamb recipes
Pan rösti with spiced lamb, spinach and chickpeas
Stuck in a dinner rut? For a delicious midweek meal with a difference, try crisp rösti topped with spiced lamb mince, spinach and chickpeas.
Indian side dishes
Pickle-spiced chickpeas (aachari chole)
Chetna Makan's spiced chickpeas (aachari chole) can be served as a side or vegan main. Simmer chickpeas with tomatoes and spices until tender.
Indian side dishes
Chickpea gnocchi with padrón peppers and spinach coconut sauce
Serve Vivek Singh's fluffy chickpea gnocchi with spinach coconut sauce and padron peppers on its own or as part of an Indian feast.
Healthy salad recipes
Houmous, beetroot and avocado salad
This flavour-packed beetroot and avocado salad includes Omega-3 rich houmous with flaxseed carrots and feta for a healthy, filling lunch
Halloumi recipes
Fried halloumi salad with charred hispi cabbage
This fried halloumi salad has it all: salty and tangy cheese, caramelised charred cabbage and crunchy sweet beetroot slaw.
Recipes using chickpeas
Sweetcorn houmous with lamb chops and tomatoes
We've topped homemade sweetcorn houmous with spiced lamb chops and roasted cherry tomatoes for a quick and easy family dinner.
Summer salads and sides
Honey-roast carrot and chickpea salad with labneh
We've built up lots of textures and flavours here to create a showstopping carrot, labneh and chickpea salad. Perfect for summer gatherings.
Quick vegetarian recipes
Chickpea linguine with samphire and lemon
You can still dine like a king if you're on a budget with our chickpea linguine recipe, seasoned with lemon, garlic, parsley and chilli.
Snacks and nibbles
Chickpea dhal with naan bread crisps
No, it's not houmous! Dip the naan bread crisps into our flavoursome chickpea dhal instead for a healthy vegetarian snack.
Midweek meal recipes
Spanish-style cod and chickpea stew
A simple Spanish-style stew made with white fish (we've used cod but you could use any white fish you prefer), smoked paprika and chickpeas.
Vegan dinner recipes
Aubergine, tomato and chickpea traybake
Food writer Elly Pear's aubergine, tomato and chickpea traybake is one of her favourite recipes from her vegetarian cookbook Green.
Lamb curry recipes
Lamb and chickpea sikandari
It’s a roast AND it’s a curry…this slow-cooked, aromatically spiced lamb dish in a chickpea curry sauce is the best of both worlds.
Halloumi recipes
Fried halloumi with warm harissa, rice and chickpea salad
Warm harissa works wonderfully with fried halloumi, chickpeas and rice in this salad recipe - a tasty, filling meal that can be on the table in 15 minutes.
Soup recipes
Zuppa di ceci e farro (chickpea and farro soup)
Farro, a nutrient-rich whole grain, is cooked in a purée of chickpeas and dressed with olive oil, herbs, garlic and chilli in this vegetarian soup recipe.
Snacks and nibbles
Houmous bowl with chorizo and crispy kale
You could easily double the quantities for this houmous bowl with chorizo and crispy kale to feed a crowd. Serve with warm flatbreads for dipping.
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