Pasta With Chickpea Sauce Recipes

CHICKPEA PASTA RECIPE

Steps:

• In a large sauce pan heat olive oil, stir in paprika and cook until fragrant (about 30 seconds). Add onion and sauté until soft. Toss in minced garlic and cook a minute longer.
• Add chickpeas and stir to coat in the onion-garlic mixture. Pour in the tomato passata, water or stock and bay leaf. Bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for 20 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Ten minutes before the sauce is ready, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook pasta until al dente.
• Drain and add to the chickpea tomato sauce. Stir to coat in the sauce. Add a ladle or two of pasta cooking water to thin out the sauce, as needed. Remove the bay leaf and discard.
• Drizzle lightly with olive oil, sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley (optional) and serve with plenty of grated Parmigiano cheese.

PASTA WITH CHICKPEA-TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium. Add garlic and red-pepper flakes, and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds (do not brown). Add chickpeas, season with salt, and cook 5 minutes. Add tomatoes and broth, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and cook until sauce has reduced slightly, 20 minutes. Add basil, and cook 5 minutes more. Remove basil.
• While sauce is cooking, cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente; drain pasta, and return to pot.
• Add sauce to pasta, and toss. Serve with Parmesan, and garnish with torn basil.

PASTA WITH CHICKPEA SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium.
• Add onion, carrot, and minced garlic; cook 8 minutes.
• Place onion mixture, chickpeas, water, salt, and pepper in a blender; process until smooth.
• Toss with hot cooked penne; sprinkle with parsley and basil.

PASTA WITH CHICKPEA SAUCE

Steps:

• Place all but 1/4 cup of the chickpeas in a food processor or blender, add one cup of water and process until smooth.
• Heat the olive oil with the chili pepper and the garlic in a one quart saucepan.
• Add the onion, parsley, basil and bay leaf; cook, stirring, about five minutes over medium heat.
• Add the whole chickpeas, tomatoes, salt and pepper; bring to a boil and simmer over low heat, covered, for thirty minutes, stirring at least every ten minutes.
• Add water if liquid reduces too much.
• Discard the bay leaf.
• When ready to serve, transfer the hot chickpea sauce to a heated bowl large enough to comfortably hold all the pasta.
• Dilute the sauce with 1/4 cup of pasta cooking water and fold in pasta.
• Serve and pass parmigiana and the grater.

PASTA WITH CHICKPEA SAUCE

Steps:

• In blender or food processor, puree one can of chickpeas with its liquid. Add second can of chickpeas, tomatoes, spinach, rosemary, parsley and pepper and set aside.
• Prepare garlic, onion and mushrooms and set aside.
• In a large saucepan (at least 3 quarts) add garlic, onion, mushrooms and cook until soft. Add small amounts of water as needed to prevent sticking.
• Start water for pasta.
• Add puree mixture, stirring it often and cook about 5 minutes.
• Begin cooking pasta according to package directions.
• While pasta is cooking, continue cooking puree mixture until it has thickened, about 10 minutes more.
• Toss sauce with cooked rotini and serve.

CHICKPEA PASTA RECIPE

Steps:

• Rinse and drain the chickpeas. Set aside.
• Heat one tablespoon of the olive oil in a large skillet or cast-iron pan. Add the ground cumin and ground coriander and cook for one minute on high heat, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.
• Add the rinsed and drained chickpeas to the pan, along with the salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes (if using). Continue cooking on high heat for about 5 minutes until the chickpeas begin to lightly brown. Remove all but about 1/4 cup of the chickpeas to a blender.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, and add the angel hair pasta. Cook according to package directions. Before removing from the heat, ladle a cup of the pasta water into the blender with the chickpeas. Drain the pasta, and add to the pan with the remaining chickpeas. Toss to combine.
• Add the second tablespoon of olive oil to the blender with the chickpeas and pasta water and purée until smooth. Check the seasoning and add more salt, if needed.
• Pour the chickpea sauce over the pasta and stir in the parsley. Top with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, and serve hot.

PASTA E CECI (PASTA WITH CHICKPEAS) RECIPE

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven, heat oil over medium heat until shimmering. Add garlic and rosemary, season lightly with salt, and cook, stirring frequently, until garlic softens and turns golden, about 5 minutes. Add pepper flakes and continue to cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add tomato paste and cook until tomato paste is fragrant and turns dark brick red, about 1 minute.
• Stir in wine, scraping up any browned bits with a wooden spoon. Bring to a simmer, and cook until wine has emulsified with olive oil and mixture is slightly reduced, about 2 minutes.
• If using cooked dry chickpeas: Stir in 1 cup (170g) chickpeas and 1 cup (240ml) chickpea cooking liquid. Using a potato masher or wooden spoon, mash chickpeas against the sides and bottom of the pot until completely broken down. Stir in the rest of the chickpeas and remaining 3 cups (710ml) cooking liquid (supplementing with stock or water as needed to reach 3 cups), and black pepper. Season with salt to taste. Proceed to Step 4. If using canned chickpeas: Remove Dutch oven from heat; remove and discard rosemary sprig. Add 1 cup (170g) chickpeas and 1 cup (240ml) stock, and using an immersion blender, blend mixture until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. (If you do not have a handheld immersion blender, transfer mixture to blender and blend until smooth, about 1 minute. Pour mixture back into Dutch oven.) Stir in remaining 2 cups (340ml) of chickpeas, 3 cups (710ml) stock, and black pepper. Season with salt to taste.
• Bring chickpea mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir in pasta and cook, stirring frequently, until pasta is just shy of al dente (1 to 2 minutes less than the package directs, as the pasta will continue to cook off-heat), and liquid is reduced to a consistency that falls between soupy and saucy. Adjust consistency as needed with additional water, stock, or chickpea cooking liquid, keeping in mind that liquid will tighten up as it cools due to starch from the chickpeas.
• Remove from heat, add cheese, and stir rapidly to incorporate. Season with salt to taste. Divide between individual serving bowls (for the dried chickpea version, look out for the garlic cloves and rosemary sprig; remove and discard them), and drizzle each serving with olive oil. Serve, passing extra grated cheese at the table.