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chickpeas Archives | Wholefully https://wholefully.com/tag/chickpeas/ Fresh Family Meals - Made for Everyday Life Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:18:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wholefully.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/favicon-150x150.png chickpeas Archives | Wholefully https://wholefully.com/tag/chickpeas/ 32 32 Kale Caesar Salad https://wholefully.com/kale-caesar-salad/ https://wholefully.com/kale-caesar-salad/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:17:00 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=64680 Discover a fresh twist on a classic with this Kale Caesar Salad recipe. Perfect for a satisfying lunch or a light dinner! A large wooden bowl with kale caesar salad and crunchy chickpeas tossed in a homemade caesar dressing.

A large wooden bowl with kale caesar salad and crunchy chickpeas tossed in a homemade caesar dressing.

A week rarely goes by in our house without Caesar salad on the menu! A great Caesar salad is a wonderful side dish to many meals, and it's a huge crowd-pleaser—many picky eaters who won't otherwise touch a salad happily enjoy a good Caesar salad! Our version of Caesar salad is boosted with earthy, nutrient-dense, chewy raw kale. We swap out the classic crunchy croutons for our homemade chickpea croutons—which add a great crunch and help round out the salad and make it more hearty. We recommend using our homemade Caesar salad dressing (it's so easy!), but you can also use your favorite bottled Caesar dressing for this recipe. Let's get cooking! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/kale-caesar-salad/feed/ 0 Sesame Chickpea Mediterranean Salad in a Jar https://wholefully.com/sesame-chickpea-mason-jar-salad/ https://wholefully.com/sesame-chickpea-mason-jar-salad/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:32:25 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=15685 This nourishing Sesame Chickpea Mediterranean Salad in a Jar is full of bright Mediterranean flavors. You'll love this make-ahead lunch! A tall mason jar with layered salad ingredients sits on a white counter in front of a white wall. Lemon slices sit next to the jar in a small black bowl.

A tall mason jar with layered salad ingredients sits on a white counter in front of a white wall. Lemon slices sit next to the jar in a small black bowl.

This Mediterranean salad in a jar is bright, flavorful, and packed full of nourishing ingredients like sprouted lentils, chickpeas, and crisp veggies. And who can beat the convenience of a salad in a jar? Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/sesame-chickpea-mason-jar-salad/feed/ 16 Savory Pumpkin Hummus Recipe https://wholefully.com/savory-pumpkin-hummus-6/ https://wholefully.com/savory-pumpkin-hummus-6/#comments Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:32:38 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=27453 At first glance, this bright-orange pumpkin hummus might seem like a strange way to use up pumpkin, but trust me, the sweetness of pumpkin is an amazing addition to the smokiness of traditional hummus. You'll love this for fall snacks! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/savory-pumpkin-hummus-6/feed/ 1 Vegetarian Summer Orzo Salad Recipe https://wholefully.com/orzo-salad/ https://wholefully.com/orzo-salad/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:34:00 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=75039 If you’re looking for a way to enjoy the bounty of fresh summer vegetables and herbs, this Vegetarian Summer Orzo Salad recipe is the recipe for you!

Overhead of orzo pasta salad in a white bowl on a light countertop.

This is one of my favorite recipes to make because it's so versatile! This recipe for vegetarian summer orzo salad is great for a good summer potluck dish, an easy vegetarian dinner, or a good packed lunch. Really, this yummy filling recipe is perfect for just about any occasion! Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/orzo-salad/feed/ 0 Easy Vegan Meatballs https://wholefully.com/vegan-meatballs/ https://wholefully.com/vegan-meatballs/#comments Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:00:41 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=6393 Whenever someone is hesitant to try out eating more meatless meals, one of my favorite things to do is show them just how comforting and hearty plant-based eating can be. I think a common misconception about a plant-based diet is that it’s just a bunch of salads. So not true! A plant-centered meal can be just as hearty and stick-to-your-ribs-y as a meal with animal products. And this big ole plate of spaghetti and vegan meatballs is a perfect example of that.

I posted my first meatless meatball recipe back in 2011 after getting a recipe emailed to me by one of my coworkers. I was really happy with the taste of the recipe, but now looking back at it, the ingredient list was a little unwieldy. It had 17 ingredients just to make some daggum meatballs! For years now, I’ve been working on perfecting that vegan meatballs recipe with these main goals in mind:

Reduce the ingredient list as low as possible (it’s down to 10 for the base recipe).
Use only pantry staples (the weirdest ingredient here is walnuts).
Keep it delicious, meaty, and hearty (it totally is).

White plate filled with spaghetti, vegan meatballs, and marinara sauce on a blue background. A white-handled fork rests on the edge of the plate.

After a whole lot of spaghetti and meatball dinners (like, a lot), I think I’ve finally landed on a really great, relatively simple, perfectly meaty, and delicious plant-based meatball recipe. Woohoo!

What are meatless meatballs made out of?

There are a lot of great meatless meatball recipes out there, but not a lot of great meatless meatball recipes that don’t call for specialty ingredients like tempeh or TVP or tofu or wheat germ or seitan. These vegan meatballs are made using only ingredients that are regularly kept in my pantry. They are all 100 recognizable—no soy protein isolate here! Here's what's in these meatballs:

Chickpeas
Onion
Garlic
Walnuts
Oats
Brown rice
Soy sauce (or tamari if gluten-free)
Ketchup
Herbs and spices

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This vegetarian curry is an EXPLOSION of awesome flavor. And the best part? It comes together in less than 20 minutes. Serve it up with some hot-off-the-presses naan, and you’ve got yourself an amazing healthy dinner that the whole family with love. If you've never made curry before, it's nothing to be afraid of. The best way to get the curry flavor you're used to from your favorite South Asian restaurant is to use curry paste. Yes, they sell curry powder at most grocery stores, but the flavor of typical curry spices tends to fade very quickly after grinding—so powder form isn't the best way to get robust flavor. Spoon full of white rice and chickpea and cauliflower curry on a spoon that is resting on the edge of a white bowl of curry.

Spoon full of white rice and chickpea and cauliflower curry on a spoon that is resting on the edge of a white bowl of curry.

White bowl full of chickpea and cauliflower curry and white rice, with a torn piece of naan tucked into the rice.

Curry paste is the wet version of curry powder, and you can probably find it at your regular supermarket in the international foods aisle. Because it is wet, it keeps the flavor of the spices nice and robust, and having a bottle of curry paste in the fridge makes it a BREEZE to make a weeknight curry like this one. For this recipe, you're looking to pick up red curry paste—Mae Ploy brand is one that a lot of folks like, but I can't find it at my supermarket, so I usually just use Thai Kitchen. If you're a little more advanced, you can also make your own curry paste at home—here's a great how-to from The Wanderlust Kitchen. Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/chickpea-cauliflower-curry/feed/ 86 Meal Prep Baked Falafel Lettuce Wraps https://wholefully.com/falafel-lettuce-wraps/ https://wholefully.com/falafel-lettuce-wraps/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:00:55 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=12300

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Even if you don't grow a garden yourself, you can pretty much always guarantee some surprise produce from co-workers, friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers during the summer in Indiana. As a gardener, there is always some point where you can't even think about eating another spear of asparagus/cherry tomato/zucchini, and you start to give away the rest of the crop to every single person you see. There is even a whole holiday dedicated to sneaking extra zucchinis onto your neighbor's porch. Overhead shot of ingredients for Meal Prep Baked Falafel Lettuce Wraps - chickpeas, lettuce, lemon, cucumber, egg

Overhead shot of ingredients for Meal Prep Baked Falafel Lettuce Wraps - chickpeas, lettuce, lemon, cucumber, egg

These Falafel Lettuce Wraps were born from donated produce. Back when I worked in an office, it was pretty common to walk into our office kitchen on any given day during summer and see a pile of tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers with a big "TAKE ME!" sign hanging over them. That's Midwestern generosity for you. Okay, and maybe it's a little bit of Midwestern pawning off, too. During one particularly sweltering summer day, I walked into the office kitchen and saw a pile of beautiful Bibb lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes, and I immediately knew what I was going to make—some sort of lettuce wrap! I started thinking about all the foods we traditionally wrap in carb-heavy bread-y things—burritos, tacos, gyros, falafel. Wait! Falafel! Perfect. Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/falafel-lettuce-wraps/feed/ 13 Gluten-Free and Vegan Chickpea and Flaxseed Homemade Pasta https://wholefully.com/chickpea-flaxseed-homemade-pasta/ https://wholefully.com/chickpea-flaxseed-homemade-pasta/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:00:49 +0000 http://backtoherroots.com/?p=8974

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Chickpea flour is one of my favorite gluten-free flours to experiment with in the kitchen. Made from finely ground chickpeas (garbanzo beans), the flour is packed with protein and fiber. It has just a slight chickpea flavor that can be either complimented or hidden with other flavors, depending on your end goal. So far with chickpea flour, we've made pancakes, socca, and the world's creamiest and smoothest hummus. Seriously, it is worth buying a bag of the stuff just for the hummus. You can normally find it in the gluten-free baking section of your grocery store. We buy Bob's Red Mill brand. Overhead shot of ingredients for Gluten-Free and Vegan Chickpea and Flaxseed Homemade Pasta, with each ingredient in its own white bowl

Overhead shot of ingredients for Gluten-Free and Vegan Chickpea and Flaxseed Homemade Pasta, with each ingredient in its own white bowl

Besides the hummus, my favorite thing to come out of the discovery of chickpea flour is homemade pasta. The beauty of this pasta dough is in its total simplicity. Just a handful of ingredients– and one happens to be water. It doesn't get much easier than that. The end result is a soft pasta with a slightly nutty flavor from the flaxseed. You won't be fooling any die-hard white/refined pasta fans, but if you tend to like more hearty carbs, this is a pasta for you. We paired it with some vegan roasted red pepper pesto, and it was an amazing combo. Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/chickpea-flaxseed-homemade-pasta/feed/ 134 How to Cook Chickpeas https://wholefully.com/chickpeas/ https://wholefully.com/chickpeas/#comments Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=31817 It's been such blast exploring the glorious world of pulses over the past few months with my friends from USA Pulses and Pulse Canada! I've shown you how you can sttreeecccccchhhhh a $1.50 bag of split peas, black beans, and lentils into three meals per bag. And today, we're tackling the last (but certainly not least) pulse—chickpeas! Just like all the other pulses out there, chickpeas (AKA: garbanzo beans) are a super affordable, delicious, sustainable, protein-packed source of fiber. Pulses

They are so tasty, versatile, incredibly healthy, and budget-friendly to cook with. The average cost of beef per serving is $1.49, whereas you can serve dry peas, chickpeas, lentils, or beans for about 10 cents per serving. TEN CENTS! If you’re looking for affordable ways to eat healthier, pulses need to be on your grocery list. Make sure to sign up for the Half-Cup Habit, and see how easy it can be to add a half cup serving of pulses to your diet three times per week. Canned pulses are a great deal, too, but to stretch your budget even further, drive your cart down the grocery store aisle a little more and pick up some bags of dried beans, lentils, chickpeas, or split peas. A pound of dried pulses runs between $1-$2, and trust me, you can streeeettttcchhh each of those bags into multiple meals. Today, I’m going to show you how to stretch a one pound bag of chickpeas into three delicious, healthy, meatless meals! Let’s do this.Read the post »]]> https://wholefully.com/chickpeas/feed/ 5 Chickpea Apple Spinach Salad with Honey-Mustard Vinaigrette https://wholefully.com/chickpea-apple-spinach-salad-vinaigrette/ https://wholefully.com/chickpea-apple-spinach-salad-vinaigrette/#respond Tue, 07 Nov 2017 07:00:40 +0000 https://wholefully.com/?p=41447 https://wholefully.com/chickpea-apple-spinach-salad-vinaigrette/feed/ 0