Chickpea Soup - General Cooking Principles
Like any first course, chickpea soup can be prepared in meat, mushroom, fish or vegetable broth. In the East, where this bean product is especially popular, pork is not used for religious reasons. In the west, use any meat.
Chickpeas. Before cooking, peas need to be soaked for several hours in cool water. Better to do it at night. And in order not to provoke the multiplication of microbes and an unpleasant smell, the dishes can be put in the refrigerator. The chickpea will increase in size, it will need to be washed and boiled until tender. After boiling, boil for 5-8 minutes, drain the water and you can cook the soup. Boil peas in broth for 40-60 minutes.
Vegetables. In the soup with chickpeas, they are added in the same way as when cooking classic main dishes with legumes, that is, when the peas are almost ready. Vegetables are cut into arbitrary pieces, soup with chickpeas can be cooked with or without frying.
Spices and herbs. In the east they are used in large quantities. Of the spices especially often add different types of pepper, turmeric, saffron. Greens are added to the plate fresh. If added to a pot of soup with chickpeas, then you must definitely bring the dish to a boil.
Recipe 1: Soup with chickpeas and oriental lamb
Unusually flavored soup with chickpeas and lots of spices. It is better to cook from lamb shanks, having previously removed the films. But you can use any other parts of the carcass, it turns out deliciously with ribs.
Required ingredients
• lamb 0.8 kg;
• chickpeas 0.2 kg;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• hot pepper pod;
• 3 tomatoes;
• sprig of thyme;
• butter;
• 1 tsp ground saffron;
• salt, hop-suneli to taste.
Cooking
Boil Turkish peas pre-soaked for 5-10 minutes, then you need to drain the water and set the peas aside. Throw the lamb into the cauldron, add a little oil and put on the stove to fry. After a few minutes, add peeled and chopped onion, crushed garlic. Fry everything together over medium heat. Peel the garlic, chop it and send it to the cauldron. At the pod of hot pepper, remove the tail with the seeds, chop finely and also send to the cauldron, add the thyme and continue to simmer over low heat.
Cut the carrots, tomatoes. Mix with prepared chickpeas, add saffron, black pepper, sunnel hops and send everything to the cauldron for lamb. Pour boiling water, approximately 2.5 liters, navigate the desired density of soup. Boil the chickpea soup for 40 minutes. Salt, cook for another 10 minutes, then pour the chopped herbs, bring to a boil, cover and let it brew for half an hour.
Recipe 2: Soup with Chickpeas and Meatballs
A simple recipe for a delicious soup with chickpeas, which is quite easy to prepare. Peas are soaked in advance, after which it will take no more than an hour to cook. Minced meat can be used any: chicken, pork, beef, turkey or a mixture.
Ingredients
• 300 gr. minced meat;
• 2 tablespoons of semolina;
• chickpeas 0.2 kg;
• 2 potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 1 clove garlic;
• greenery;
• salt pepper;
• oil for frying meatballs.
Cooking
Pour swollen and washed chickpeas with fresh water, and leave to cook on the stove. To make the broth better, after 10 minutes it can be drained and pour peas with new boiling water. Boil chickpeas for 35-40 minutes. Then add peeled and chopped potatoes, salt and continue cooking.
Stuffing mix with semolina, salt, pepper, add chopped garlic. Mix everything, form meatballs, fry in vegetable oil in a pan until golden brown. Take out. In the same oil, fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots. When the potatoes are ready, put the sautéed vegetables in a pan, boil for 3-4 minutes, add herbs, bring to a boil and turn off.
Recipe 3: Soup with Chickpeas and Smoked Meat
Smoked pea soup is quite popular. A fragrant first course enjoys universal love. But what if you make soup with chickpeas and smoked meats? It will turn out not less interesting and tasty first dish.
Required ingredients
• 200 gr. turkish peas;
• 0.5 kg of smoked ribs;
• 3 potatoes;
• onion;
• 2 tablespoons of tomato paste;
• oil for roasting;
• salt;
• carrot.
Cooking method
Chickpeas, as usual, are soaked in advance. You can cook chickpea soup both in meat broth and in water. In any case, smoked meats will give it flavor and richness. Boil 3 liters of water (meat broth), add prepared chickpeas, boil for 40 minutes. Add smoked meat and potatoes, boil for another 15 minutes. At this time, fry the onions and carrots in a pan. When they are browned, add the pasta and simmer for a few minutes. Then put the frying in a saucepan, salt and chickpea soup, boil for 5 minutes and turn it off.
Recipe 4: Spanish Chicken Soup "Cosido"
Spanish soup with chickpeas is prepared with the addition of lecho, Georgian hot adjika, pickled hot pepper, as well as pork. The dish is quite fatty and spicy, but incredibly tasty and appetizing.
Required ingredients
• 0.5 kg of pork;
• 0.25 kg of chickpea;
• 0.2 kg lecho;
• onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 tablespoons of Georgian adjika;
• 2 green pickled peppers;
• salt, greens.
Cooking method
Prepare chickpeas as usual, soaking in advance. Cut the pork into cubes, pour 3 liters of water over it and put the broth to boil. An hour later, pour the swollen chickpeas and boil for another 30-40 minutes.
Prepare a dressing at this time. For it, you need to fry the chopped onion with shabby carrots, add the lecho to them. If the pieces of pepper in it are large enough, then cut into strips. Add hot Georgian adjika to the pan, if desired, its quantity can be reduced. Green marinated peppers are also cut into strips and sent to the pan. Quench everything well for 10-15 minutes over low heat, then send to a pot with soup. Salt, boil for another 10 minutes and can be served.
In Spain, Cosido soup often serves as a first and second course. For density, you can add potatoes to it, and for piquancy, pickled olives. Greens are optionally placed in plates when serving.
Recipe 5: Chickpea Soup
Many do not like to cook soups with chickpeas because of the skins, which then come across in the broth. Exit - to cook the cream soup. This is a vegetarian recipe, but you can use meat or fish broth if you wish.
Ingredients
• 300 gr. chickpea;
• 2 potatoes;
• onion;
• 1 spoon of curry;
• 50 gr. butter;
• 1 carrot;
• 200 ml of cream;
• salt, greens.
Cooking method
Swollen chickpeas pour 2 liters of water and boil. 15 minutes before readiness add diced potatoes. While the soup is boiling, fry the onion with carrots in butter. Put the dressing in the soup, cool slightly and chop together with a submersible blender. Salt, put on the stove. Bring to a boil, pour in the cream and pour the curry. Boil a minute and turn off. Serve pureed chickpea soup with parsley and crackers.
Recipe 6: Vegetarian soup with chickpeas and noodles
Vegetarian soup with chickpeas noodles adds special satiety and richness. You can cook with any pasta. Better from durum wheat, retaining shape longer.
Required ingredients
• 0.3 kg chickpea;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 1 stick of celery;
• 50 gr. oils;
• 100 gr. noodles
• 50 gr. tomato paste;
• salt.
Cooking method
Soak chickpeas, boil for 15 minutes and drain the water. Set aside. Pour oil into a saucepan for future soup, put on a stove. Chop onions and carrots, pour in butter and fry. Add chopped celery, prepared chickpeas, pour boiling water and continue cooking for 40-50 minutes. At the end, add salt, tomato paste, add noodles, bring to readiness and turn off. When serving, sprinkle with herbs, add sour cream.
Recipe 7: Mushroom Chickpea Soup
Another recipe for vegetarian soup with chickpeas, but if desired, it can be prepared with the addition of meat or sausages. Although the dish itself is fragrant. Any mushrooms can be used for cooking, whites are used here.
Required ingredients
• 0.15 kg of chickpea;
• 4 potatoes;
• 0.3 kg of white mushrooms;
• onion;
• Bay leaf;
• oil for roasting;
• salt, greens.
Cooking method
Prepared chickpeas to boil until cooked, but that he did not boil soft. Drain, but do not dispose. Cut the mushrooms into cubes, and also fry the onions together in oil. Put onion with mushrooms in a pan, boiled chickpeas, diced potatoes. Add 0.5 liters of decoction with peas, pour the rest with ordinary boiling water to the desired density. Put on the stove and cook the soup until the potatoes are ready. Salt in the middle, add greens and bay leaf at the end.
Recipe 8: Tomato Chickpea Soup in a Multicooker
Simple and delicious soup, for the preparation of which does not need much time and food. Great for losing weight people, can be used for both lunch and dinner.
Required ingredients
• 0.2 kg of chickpeas;
• 4 tomatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 1 pepper;
• 1 carrot;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• cooking oil;
• salt, sugar.
Cooking
Soak chickpeas in advance, then boil in a slow cooker on the "buckwheat" mode. Water add 2 times more than peas. Pour oil into a pan, fry onions with carrots and pepper, then add tomatoes to them and simmer for several minutes. Add roasting to chickpeas in a slow cooker, pour in boiled water. It should be 3-4 above the level of products. Add salt to taste and be sure to 1-2 tablespoons of sugar, it will give the soup with chickpeas more flavor. Close the slow cooker and put on the quenching mode, cook an hour.
Chickpea Soup - Tricks and Tips
• Chickpeas, like all legumes, can cause increased gas formation. To reduce the likelihood of flatulence, during the cooking process you need to change the water several times. New fluid must be boiling.
• In some recipes it is advised to add baking soda to the water when cooking bean. It really helps to cook faster. But you need to know that soda has a detrimental effect on many vitamins and minerals. Reasonable hostesses soak the beans in advance and prepare healthy dishes.
• Salt chickpea soup at the end of cooking, otherwise the peas will remain hard.
• No matter how you cook a chickpea dish, do not eat it at night. This can cause fermentation, flatulence, a violation in the digestive system. For the same reason, introducing chickpeas into a child’s diet should not be earlier than 1.5 years.
Chickpea soup is healthy and nutritious. Especially if you cook it according to our recipes. Chickpeas will help to diversify the diet and make new notes in it.
