Who said that pasta and chickpeas is a winter dish? This pasta with chickpea cream is good hot, but even cold it is really tasty and nutritious. A dish that is quickly prepared, starting with already cooked chickpeas, or you can prepare it starting with dried chickpeas which requires some extra care, such as remembering to soak them the night before preparing the dish. Also, the chickpea soup enjoyed lukewarm is a valid super nutritious dish suitable even for warmer periods.
Let’s get to work and prepare pasta with chickpea cream together.
OTHER RECIPES WITH CHICKPEAS
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 12 Hours
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 1 Person
- Cooking methods: Stove
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Year-round
Ingredients for preparing pasta with chickpea cream
- 11 oz pasta
- 3/4 cup dried chickpeas
- 2 beefsteak tomatoes
- 2 red Tropea onions (small)
- 2 cloves garlic
- to taste salt and pepper
- 1 1/2 cups basil leaves
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
Tools
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- Pressure Cooker
- Immersion Blender
- Baking Dish
Steps for preparing pasta with chickpea cream
If you don’t want to use pre-cooked chickpeas, soak the dried chickpeas in cold water the night before. The next morning, rinse them and boil them in plenty of unsalted water. In a pressure cooker, it will take 45 minutes, twice that in a regular pot. Drain them and let them cool.
Wash and cut the tomato into wedges. Cut the onions into large pieces (if they are large, one is enough). Add the garlic, salt, pepper, and a splash of oil. Bake in a static oven at 356°F for about 30 minutes.
Pour the tomatoes with the onions and all the seasoning into a tall container. Add the chickpeas, basil, and blend everything with an immersion blender. Adjust the salt.
Boil the pasta and drain it al dente. Dress it with chickpea pesto, making it a bit creamier with the pasta cooking water. Scent with some torn basil leaves and enrich with a splash of raw oil before serving.
Storage
You can also prepare the chickpea pesto a couple of days in advance and store it in the fridge.
