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Chickpeas Recipes

12 recipes with chickpeas for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

12 recipes

Plov (Uzbek Pilaf) with rice, lamb and carrot — Uzbekistan recipe

🇺🇿UzbekistanAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Plov (Uzbek Pilaf)

The king of Central Asian cuisine: a fragrant pilaf of long-grain rice cooked with slow-fried lamb, golden carrots, whole garlic heads and cumin in a large kazan. Rich, aromatic and deeply satisfying — every grain of rice absorbs the flavors of the zirvak base.

180 min1000 kcal10 serves

💪High protein

Chana Masala with chickpeas, tomato and onion — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chana Masala

A Punjabi street food staple that became an all-India classic — chickpeas simmered in a thick spiced tomato-onion sauce with cumin, coriander, garam masala, and a squeeze of lime. Vegetarian, cheap, deeply satisfying. Eaten for breakfast with puri, for lunch with rice, and as a street snack.

35 min290 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Chickpea Spinach Skillet with chickpeas, spinach and tomatoes — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Chickpea Spinach Skillet

Chickpeas sautéed with onion, garlic, tomatoes and cumin, with spinach stirred in at the end. Done in 25 minutes in one pan. About 11g of fiber per serving. Good over rice, with eggs poached on top, or with flatbread.

25 min340 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Dense Bean Salad with chickpeas, cucumber and feta — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Dense Bean Salad

Three types of beans, crisp vegetables, briny olives, crumbled feta, and a sharp oregano-garlic vinaigrette. This recipe went viral on TikTok in 2024 because it actually works as a full meal. About 13g of protein and 11g of fiber per serving. No cooking required, 15 minutes of prep, holds 4 days in the fridge — and tastes noticeably better the next day.

15 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Hummus with chickpeas, tahini and lemon — Israel recipe

🇮🇱IsraelEasy

Sauces and Dips

Hummus

Creamy homemade hummus from chickpeas, tahini, lemon, and garlic — blended until impossibly smooth. Ten minutes from can to bowl, and it beats every store-bought tub I have ever tried.

10 min170 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Chickpea and Spinach Curry with chickpeas, spinach and tomatoes — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chickpea and Spinach Curry

Two cans of chickpeas, a bag of spinach, tomatoes, coconut milk, and a handful of spices. One pan, 35 minutes. The kind of meal that costs almost nothing, reheats perfectly, and somehow gets better the next day. The spice list looks long but everything on it is standard pantry — once you have them, this recipe costs next to nothing per portion.

35 min340 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

High-Fiber White Bean & Chickpea Skillet with canned white beans, canned chickpeas and canned crushed tomatoes — Mediterranean recipe

🌊MediterraneanAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

High-Fiber White Bean & Chickpea Skillet

White beans and chickpeas in a garlicky tomato base with smoked paprika and wilted spinach — one skillet, 25 minutes, around 18 g of fiber per serving. This is the kind of dinner that looks simple and then keeps you full for four hours. No meat, no gluten, and genuinely good enough to make on a weeknight without thinking of it as a compromise. Serve with crusty bread or flatbread to drag through the sauce.

25 min380 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Vegan Buddha Bowl with chickpeas, sweet potato and quinoa — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Vegan Buddha Bowl

Quinoa, crispy spiced chickpeas, roasted sweet potato, fresh avocado, and shredded purple cabbage, all brought together with a tahini-lemon dressing. Buddha bowls follow a five-part formula: grain base, plant protein, roasted vegetables, fresh raw vegetables, and sauce. There's no fixed recipe — the whole point is that you can swap nearly every component based on what's in season or what's in your fridge, and the bowl still works. What makes this version reliable: the chickpeas are properly dried before roasting, the sweet potato is cut small enough to caramelize rather than steam, and the tahini dressing is thinned down enough to actually coat everything rather than sitting on top.

40 min540 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Chickpea Tikka Masala with chickpeas, coconut milk and garam masala — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chickpea Tikka Masala

Chickpeas simmered in a creamy, deeply spiced tomato and coconut sauce. The flavor builds in layers: caramelized onion as the base, garlic and fresh ginger for sharpness, bloomed spices for depth, tomato paste cooked until it darkens, then coconut milk pulled in at the end to soften everything into something rich and velvety. This is the version of tikka masala that makes people think vegan food is actually good. It reheats better than almost anything and tastes noticeably better the day after you make it.

40 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Harira with chickpeas, lentils and tomatoes — Morocco recipe

🇲🇦MoroccoAdvanced

Soups

Harira

Harira is Morocco's most important soup. The name comes from the Arabic word for silk — a reference to the velvety texture it gets from a flour-and-water slurry (tedouira) stirred in at the end. Every Moroccan family has their version, but the spine is always the same: tomatoes, chickpeas, lentils, fresh herbs, ginger, and warm spices. It is the soup that breaks the Ramadan fast every evening at iftar, served alongside dates, hard-boiled eggs, and chebakia pastries. It is also eaten through the rest of the year, as a starter or as a meal in itself. The lamb version is the most traditional, but the vegetarian version is nearly as popular.

90 min320 kcal6 serves

Shurpa with lamb on the bone, chickpeas and carrots — Uzbekistan recipe

🇺🇿UzbekistanAdvanced

Soups

Shurpa

A slow-simmered Uzbek lamb soup of bone-in lamb, chickpeas, and large chunks of vegetables in a clear, fragrant broth. The chickpeas need soaking in cold water for 6 to 8 hours before you start cooking, so plan ahead. Seasoned with cumin and coriander, it is served with plenty of cilantro and flatbread, the broth often drunk alongside the meat and vegetables.

120 min450 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Lebanese Falafel with dried chickpeas, flat leaf parsley and fresh cilantro — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Lebanese Falafel

Falafel is a deep-fried ball of ground soaked chickpeas, fava beans or both, mixed with herbs and spices and sold as street food across the Levant and Egypt. This version uses chickpeas only; in Lebanon the mixture is often half chickpeas and half dried fava beans. The dried chickpeas soak for 24 hours and the ground mixture chills for 1 hour, with no flour or egg; the hands-on work takes about 70 minutes. The shell cracks under the teeth and the centre stays moist, coarse and green. Eat it straight from the fryer with tahini sauce, pickles and warm flatbread.

70 min580 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

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onion tomatoes ginger garam masala spinach garlic tahini cumin coconut milk rice lamb carrot