A classic Indian hot snack is chickpea popcorn. The crunchy snack is very popular throughout India, as well as in Sri Lanka and some other Asian countries. On the streets of India, you can often see mobile trays with hot snacks, as a rule, these are spicy “donuts”, hot flatbreads, chickpea popcorn, etc.

Spicy legume snacks are in great demand for several reasons: firstly, legumes, due to their high protein content, perfectly satisfy hunger, secondly, spicy snacks remain fresh for a long time, thirdly, in India, chickpeas are a very cheap product that can Almost every person can afford it. And finally, crispy chickpeas are delicious, and it’s very hard to tear yourself away from them! So be prudent, bake twice as many chickpeas in the oven as you plan to eat. Moreover, the spicy snack can be placed in a glass jar, where it will remain for several more weeks without changing its taste.

What you will need:

• 200 gr. chickpeas (chickpeas)
• 1/2 tsp. curry (dark powder)
• 1/4 tsp. turmeric (light powder)
• a pinch of ground cinnamon
• pinch of red pepper
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil (coconut, olive or sunflower)
• dried curry tree leaves (it’s very hard to find curry leaves on sale, but if you do find them, be sure to buy a few bags for preparing Indian dishes!)
• salt to taste

You can choose a mixture of other hot spices to your taste and even bake sweet crispy chickpeas in the oven, preparing it in the same way as hot popcorn, but at a certain stage replacing the spices with sugar, cocoa, vanillin, cardamom, cinnamon, etc.

Spicy crispy chickpeas in the oven

Soak the chickpeas overnight in drinking water. In the morning, drain the water, rinse the peas and refill with drinking water. Boil until tender, approximately 20-25 minutes. The beans should become soft and fall apart easily when pressed.

Place the chickpeas on a towel and let the peas dry. Meanwhile, mix all the spices.

Combine chickpeas with spices and add vegetable oil. Place the appetizer on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 180 C for 35-40 minutes. Every 10-15 min. The legumes need to be stirred so that the chickpeas bake evenly.

Legumes can also be dried in a frying pan. Heat a dry frying pan, add the chickpeas and fry for 5-7 minutes until all the moisture has evaporated. Then add spices and oil and cook the fried chickpeas for another 5-7 minutes until golden brown.

Crispy chickpeas can be served hot. Or cool the popcorn and transfer it to a glass jar, where the spicy snack will be stored for a very long time.

Bon appetit!

The chickpeas must first be cooked properly. Pour cold water over the chickpeas overnight, after rinsing them very well. After at least 12 hours, rinse it well and put it in a saucepan to cook without salting the water. I cook on low heat with the lid closed for 2 hours. If foam forms during cooking, remove with a slotted spoon. For this recipe, you can use ready-made canned chickpeas. Then we omit the moment of cooking

Preheat the oven to 200°C with convection (you can do without it, just convection helps to form a crispy crust). Drain the water from the chickpeas, place the chickpeas in a bowl, add a little olive oil, salt and spices (I used Italian herbs). Salt and spices to your taste, there are no strict proportions. Mix. Place the chickpeas on a baking sheet lined with baking paper in a single layer and place in the oven for about 30 minutes. The chickpeas should turn golden. Cool slightly and crisp!

Helpful advice

To prevent chickpeas from causing discomfort in the stomach (like all legumes), it is important to rinse them well before cooking, while soaking, change the water every 3-4 hours, and remove any foam that forms during cooking. Cooked chickpeas can be additionally peeled from the top film - then the chickpeas will bring only joy and benefits! :)

I think that there is no need to remind once again about the beneficial properties of chickpeas, and even more so that its protein consists of amino acids that are very valuable for our body. In addition, Turkish peas, also called chickpeas, have low calorie content (120 kcal/100 g), which is another advantage. Chickpeas can easily be assigned the status of a “healthy and dietary product.” You can sprout it and add its sprouts to various salads, you can prepare hummus, similar to how we prepared soybean hummus. Chickpea candies, pancakes, cutlets and much, much more... And you can also make delicious, healthy and dietary dishes from chickpeas "crunchies". You can add them to salads, vegetable stews, cream soups, or simply take them with you, for example, to a movie or a picnic and crunch with taste! The crispy chickpeas are hollow inside and have a spicy, salty crust on the outside that's quite hard to resist...

Ingredients

To make crispy chickpeas you will need:

150 g chickpeas;

1 tbsp. l. sunflower or olive oil;

1/2 tsp. sea ​​salt;

1/2 tsp. ground black pepper;

1/2 tsp. sweet paprika;

1/2 tsp. chili pepper;

1/2 tsp. turmeric.

Cooking steps

Rinse the chickpeas well and soak in cold water (preferably overnight, it’s more convenient). In the morning, rinse, pour water so that it covers the chickpeas by 3 cm, and put on fire. Once it boils, reduce the heat and cook the chickpeas over medium heat for 40-60 minutes.

Drain the water. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the chickpeas over the entire area.

The chickpeas should be nicely browned. You can taste the peas and determine readiness, since sometimes chickpeas from different manufacturers require a little more time to cook. When the chickpeas are ready, turn off the oven and leave the crispy chickpeas to cool in the oven.

Chickpeas can be eaten warm or cold. Store in a dry, dark place in a well-sealed container for 7-10 days. Bon appetit! Eat with pleasure!

1 Almost everyone loves to crunch on something tasty but unhealthy, because things like crackers, seeds, chips, nuts and salt are addictive at an incredible speed. These types of foods catch on very quickly., after which you want to eat more and more of them, but they are quite harmful, so you need to find an alternative to such a snack. Chickpea crackers are one of those alternative sources of pleasure that culinary experts have come up with. On the same level are lavash chips, which are also very tasty and not at all harmful. If you still like to cook, then I advise you to also have a good website “Book of Cooking Recipes” http://knigarulit.ru/. This is simply a great solution, and the best opportunity to strive for the best and learn new, unique and at the same time not complicated recipes.

Ingredient

To prepare crackers you will need three hundred grams of Turkish nuts, that is, chickpeas, as they are commonly called, also a little sunflower oil, spices to your taste, this can be pepper, salt, ready-made mixtures with flavors, also sweet spices, honey or sugar, cinnamon and other. You may have problems with, how to get chickpeas, but in big stores in your city they are definitely sold, looking like a small beige ball. All other spices and additives will be easily found and purchased, so it’s time to start cooking.

Stages

Chickpeas, like any other city, take quite a long time to cook, so you should soak them in cool water for several hours in advance. When the chickpeas have increased several times in size, they can be cooked, cooked like regular peas. When the peas become very large and taste cooked, which happens after an hour of cooking, you can take them out and dry them on a paper napkin for a few minutes. After this you can mix all your spices together with the peas , mix well and place on a baking sheet in a thin layer. Now put it in the oven for an hour and a half at a temperature of eighty degrees. At this temperature, the peas will not burn, but will become crispy and tasty. Now you can take it out, eat it with sauces, or just like that while watching your favorite movie on TV.

They won't take much effort

Preparing these croutons won’t take much effort, just time, but for the sake of such a treat, a tasty and healthy snack, it’s worth the effort. Everything is very simple and clear, accessible and very tasty, and as a result, you can please or surprise your friends, acquaintances and family with a delicious dish, presenting them with such a tasty and not at all ordinary dish, so it’s definitely worth it. Enjoy the process cooking and then in the end you will get a much tastier and more appetizing dish. Yes, yes, chickpea candies today. This is how sweet lovers have to come up with different recipes using unusual products in order to maintain their figure and health.

Many thanks to Sonya tastydiet for her original and healthy recipes, the idea and original recipes were taken from her, tested and approved. The original is here http://tastydiet.livejournal.com/45559.html
And these are my candies and crunches.

For such crunches, we take boiled chickpeas, how to cook them, written in detail and interestingly by Sonya http://tastydiet.livejournal.com/45559.html, dry them on a paper towel, select bad and broken peas, sprinkle with cinnamon (if you are making sweet ones) or curry. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes. at a temperature of 190 degrees, stir occasionally. In the end, you need to catch the moment when the chickpeas are crispy and empty inside, but not burnt. They are convenient to snack on and can be taken with you for a snack.

But for sweets you need:
Boiled chickpeas - 100g.
Walnuts-50g.
Applesauce (from oven-baked apples) -75g.
Cocoa powder (I used Carob)
Cinnamon-2g.
Applesauce is needed for good candy making. Grind the chickpeas (boiled and dried), grind the walnuts, mix, add applesauce and cinnamon. Make candies and roll in cocoa. Now the yummy is ready.