Simple Recipes to Use Leftover Tinned Chickpeas
This Tomato & Artichoke Salad with Chickpeas (Short Girl, Tall Order) is a refreshing summer lunch recipe, making use of fresh tomatoes and canned artichoke hearts, along with tinned chickpeas for protein and calcium.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many foods are unsafe near animal friends). Bin allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallots, chives) and citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps, as acids could harm compost creatures. It’s okay to put them in food waste bins (made into biogas).
For tinned foods, fully remove lids (put inside) or pop ring-pulls back over holes (and pinch top opening closed) before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.
Quick ideas you can do with tinned chickpeas
Rinse and drain tinned chickpeas first, then try one of these:
- Hummus with olive oil, lemon, garlic, and cumin
- Sandwich filling with vegan mayo, mustard & chopped cucumber
- Stir into soups near the end for extra body and protein
- Traybake snack: toss with olive oil, paprika, and garlic, roast until crisp
- Salad topper with herbs, red onion, and a squeeze of lemon
- Quick chickpea curry with tomatoes, spinach, and curry powder
- Stir into pasta sauce to bulk out a veg-heavy tomato sauce
Cheeky Chickpea sandwiches!
Everyone likes a good sandwich, and here are two fabulous simple recipes to master, to make your own vegan versions of egg salad, and coronation chickpea (indeed named after the Queen’s coronation in the 1950s).
This ‘egg salad’ sandwich (The Simple Veganista) uses Julie’s homemade ‘egg salad’ as the base, combining with salad in good bread. Chickpeas are the star of the show here, combined with celery, red onions, pickles and vegan mayo.
Coronation Chickpea Sandwich!
This vegan coronation chickpea sandwich (The Simple Veganista) is a plant-based take on the chicken coronation sandwich. This is a curried affair, which basically serves up Julie’s curried chickpeas with some salad in a sarnie. Yummy.
Did you know that in Knotty Ash (a suburb of Liverpool), Ken Dodd’s Diddymen extract different flavours, from the jam butty mines?
A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat, in case of emergency. Paddington Bear
