Chickpea Soup

March 18, 2019

After the success of one slow, soaked-chickpea recipe from the lab cookbook, nosotros were corking to endeavour another! If anything, this chickpea soup from Kate is fifty-fifty slower too simpler - it was a niggling bold of us to direct maintain on 1-1.5 sixty minutes simmer on a weeknight, but nosotros persevered too were rewarded amongst large bowls of comfort too some parmesan-garlic toast on the side.

Since our dried chickpea stocks were running low, nosotros made exclusively two-thirds of the recipe quantity (but postal service the sum quantity below). The recipe instructs us to partially crush the buttery chickpeas to thicken the soup, too there's a lot of flexibility hither from 'vegetables inward sparse broth' through to 'thick too almost smooth'. I consider I powerfulness become the stick blender out side past times side fourth dimension for something different.

Chickpea soup
(a recipe shared past times Kate)

150mL olive oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
500g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight
1-2 celery sticks, thinly sliced
1 fresh bay leafage (I used 2 dry out ones)
juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons apartment leafage parsley, finely chopped
sprinkle of dry out oregano

Set a real large saucepan over medium rut too pour inward the olive oil. Add the onion too saute it, stirring regularly, until it starts to brown.

Drain too rinse the chickpeas, too add together them to the saucepan, stirring them unopen to to coat them inward the oil.

Add the celery too bay leaf, too pour inward hot H2O until the chickpeas are submerged to a depth of nigh four cm (it's a lot of water). Bring it all to the boil, too skim off whatever froth. Turn the rut downwardly a bit, popular a lid on the pot, too allow it all simmer for 1-1.5 hours, until the chickpeas are soft.

Add lemon juice, enough of salt, too laid gently for 5-10 minutes. Carefully crush some of the chickpeas inward the pan until yous gain your preferred consistency, or blend amongst a mitt mixer. 

Add the parsley too oregano, too to a greater extent than tabular array salt too lemon juice if yous like.