How to make roasted chickpeas

Roasted chickpeas from the oven are a great alternative snack to potato chips and chips. They are definitely less greasy, just as crispy and also very high in protein. What’s more, this baked chickpea snack is super easy to prepare and can be varied as desired.

Baked chickpeas – the ingredients for the roasted oven snack

Often you don’t really know what’s in store-bought snacks. Vegans also have to check whether a snack that is actually naturally free from animal ingredients actually contains no additives.

That’s why I’m sharing this recipe for roasted chickpeas with you, because oven-roasted chickpeas are a vegan and healthy snack that you can prepare super quickly. And you don’t need many ingredients to roast the pulses in the oven.

To roast the chickpeas in the oven, you need the following ingredients:

• Chickpeas: use the ones from the jar because they are already cooked and you save time.
• Olive oil: use a good one, such as extra virgin olive oil (natural and of high quality), which you can heat to a high temperature.
• Spices: a good sea salt, or even better a salt with iodine, enhances the flavor. I also used za’atar – a spice mix from Lebanon.

So you decide how your crispy snack should taste and which ingredients are used – free from additives.

Preparing roasted chickpeas in the oven – here’s how

Preparing the baked peas is really easy and takes very little time. And as it’s an oven recipe, you can do other things on the side.

1. You simply take cooked chickpeas (canned or home-cooked) and dry them really well with a kitchen towel.
2. They are then mixed in a bowl with oil – olive oil for the savory varieties and rapeseed oil for the sweet varieties.
3. The oiled chickpeas are then placed in the oven and roasted for about 30 minutes.
4. The last step is seasoning and then you can take the baked chickpeas to the couch to snack on – let them cool a little so you don’t burn your fingers.

Some spices can release bitter substances during roasting, so only season the roasted chickpeas after they come out of the oven.

For the sweet versions, you can add the sugar halfway through the baking time and the pulses will caramelize beautifully.

I hope you enjoy preparing and snacking on them. Please leave me a comment and a rating and tell me which version you tried.

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Recipe: Roasted chickpeas in the oven

Season the roasted chickpeas

You can then season the baked chickpeas from the oven to taste. I always flavor mine with salt flakes and za’atar. But you can really go wild here. You can find a few delicious seasoning ideas here for inspiration:

• Salt & pepper
• Dukkah (a spice mixture from the Levant)
• Smoked paprika powder
• Smoked salt
• Chilli
• Garlic
• Cheese & onion (yeast flakes and onion powder)
• Salt & Vinegar

Would you prefer a sweet chickpea snack? Then try this:

• Sugar
• Cinnamon & sugar
• Maple syrup

Add the sweet ingredients halfway through the baking time so that they can caramelize on the chickpeas.

If you don’t have an oven in your kitchen, you can also simply prepare the roasted chickpeas in a hot air fryer.

Chickpeas belong to the legume family. If you would like to find out more about them, take a look at the article on chickpeas.

Are you a real fan and looking for more chickpea recipes? Then try classics such as balilah or hummus fatteh. And if you like fusion dishes, then definitely try the hummus pasta

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