Sunday, 7 August 2011

Chickpeas - My new superfood!

I love these things :) plus they are a delicious source of protein! My favourite type of food is greek, i love stuffed vine leaves, mousakka, grilled halloumi and anything with feta cheese!
Chickpea's are commonly used in greek and moroccan foods, and are brilliant for vegetarians! Beacuse they help make a healthy, substantial meal! They are very filling, trust me! My favourite dishes with chickpeas are...
falafel - basically ALL chickpea! Plus spices, onion and parsley. But basically chickpeas smooshed together and lightley fried, now i know what your thinking FRIED?! I hate fried food to be honest, but i drain my falafel with kitchen towels when i have made them, in fact i'm making them tonight for dinner!

Falafel burgers < - i always prefer them to burgers?!

My second favourite use for these little gems is when my mum uses them in her gorgeous morroccan lamb stews :) yumm! She uses spices like cinnamon and paprika and adds chickpeas last minute for a little more depth and texture

< Morroccan Stew - Can anyone spot the chikpeas? ;) I counted 3 lol

Chickpeas are also a great addition to salads, and i like them with cous cous or grilled veggies such as aubergine (eggplant)

< red onion, tomato's and corriander are amazing with chickpeas as a side salad

Chickpeas nutritional value per 100g - 164 calories and 2.59g of fat

Eat up!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They seem to be awesome! I've wanted to eat them for a few weeks already. Seems like it's really hard to find them in here though. My mom doesn't really like new and unknown foods either.
Lol, I probably must wait until I live alone and decide myself over the things I eat.
You're so lucky. (:
JMU - sorry, I don't have any other account to comment under.
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