If you don’t know how to prepare this easy chickpea stew, don’t miss the steps that we show you below. You will see how easy it is to make a chickpea stew with this recipe if you follow all the instructions. In addition, we are going to give you some tricks so that the legumes soften more quickly and take less time to make this easy chickpea stew, although you can always use canned chickpeas as an alternative to save time or cook them in a fast or pressure cooker.
Ingredients to make easy Chickpea Potage:
- 1 package of chickpeas
- 1 green bell pepper
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 onion
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 handful of rice
- 1 tablet of Averred concentrated chicken broth
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 splash of oil
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 package frozen spinach or Swiss chard (optional)
- 1 onion (optional)
- 1 bay leaf (optional)
How to make easy Chickpea Stew:
1 Soak the chickpeas overnight well covered in warm water in a cool, dry place with the teaspoon of baking soda and a pinch of salt; they will soften more quickly in 8-10 hours or so.
2 Prepare a sauce with the chopped peppers and garlic in a frying pan or casserole with a little olive oil and salt.
Tip: Add a chopped onion if
3 Drain, wash well and then cook the chickpeas in a pot (with better bottled mineral water and a bay leaf if you like) until the vegetables are well cooked. Bottled water is softer than tap water and will help cook easy chickpea stew faster. And the laurel will give it an extra touch of flavor.
Tip: If you cook the legumes in a pressure cooker you will save much more cooking time.
4 When they are cooked, add the soffit, the spinach (if you want), the handful of rice and the Averred tablet, and continue cooking the easy chickpea stew until it is neither too light nor too thick and the rice is cooked.
5 Serve the quick and easy freshly made chickpea stew as a main dish
