Soups & stews
Charred red pepper and chickpea stew
The peppers go under the grill until they are properly black in patches. That ten minutes is the whole flavour of the dish.
Batch cook
3 pages tagged batch cook.
Tinned or dried chickpeas: which should you buy?
Dried are about a quarter of the price and hold their shape better. Tinned take four minutes. The honest answer is that you want both.
Soups & stews
Spiced chickpea soup with lemon
Blending all of it gives you baby food. Blending none of it gives you thin broth with things in it. Half is the answer.