An unusual snack is not only a shark's fin with a sauce of Chinese goji berries. There are dishes that we prepare rarely, but somewhere they are very loved and revered. They do not always consist of original ingredients, often the combination or method of using simple products is surprising.
Chickpeas, beans, peas and other leguminous crops are very useful for humans, and very unusual, but very tasty snacks can be made from them.
Features of the preparation of legumes
- Beans and chickpeas are not loved here because of the cooking time. They should definitely be soaked for 10-12 hours. If you don’t forget about it and do it, it will take no more than an hour to prepare. It will be time to prepare the other ingredients.
- Beans must always be soaked, harmful substances will go into the water.
- If chickpeas and beans are used in the whole snack, then it is important to regularly check their readiness, not to digest.
- If the beans or chickpeas are crushed, then it is better to digest a little. Snack will please with softness and “smooth” texture without grains.
Snack of chickpeas or beans
A recipe for a stunning and versatile snack that can be cooked with chickpeas or beans. She deserves a place even on the holiday table. We soak the beans, the amount indicated is dry.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp. beans or chickpea;
- 1 onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 0.5 tbsp. walnut;
- 0.5 tbsp. peanuts;
- 3 spoons of butter;
- salt, greens.
How to cook
- Cooked soaked beans or chickpeas to a good softness. Water is drained, but not yet thrown away, it can be useful. Leave the beans to cool.
- Roast nuts, pour into a blender, add garlic and grind to a slurry or mashed potatoes.
- Onion peel, cut, fry in oil. You can leave it either too grind until smooth.
- The cooled beans (chickpeas) are also ground. Then combine all the ingredients, stir.
- Salt a lot to taste, pepper, check the consistency. From it we will sculpt balls. If the mass is dryish, then pour a few spoons of broth.
- Make small balls, spread on a plate with greens. Serve at the table, you can immediately or cool first.
It is possible to dissolve such a snack with a large number of decoction, you get a wonderful pate or filling for tartlets. Also, if desired, each ball rolls in nuts or fried sesame, it is beautiful and very fragrant.
Snack of beans or chickpeas with avocado
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The recipe is very interesting pasta-salad of chickpeas or beans with avocado. Everything is prepared very simply, it turns out interesting and satisfying. If beans are used, it is better to choose light varieties.
Ingredients
- 80 g chickpea;
- 1 avocado;
- 1 tbsp. l lemon juice;
- salt, pepper;
- some greens.
How to cook
- Soak chickpeas and cook until absolute readiness. Either do all this with beans. Drain the water, leave a couple of spoonfuls of chickpea, grind the rest with a blender, do not add water.
- Cut the avocado around the perimeter, scroll in different directions, remove the bone. Choose the pulp, cut into pieces or just pull out, it all depends on the degree of maturity of the avocado.
- Shift the avocado to the chickpea, add salt and pepper, lemon juice, whisk until the paste is made.
- Cut the greens, fall asleep. It is better not to grind it, otherwise the color of the snack will deteriorate. At the end we enter the whole boiled chickpea or beans, which is left.
- Stir in the snack, serve to the table. Either immediately send on bread, cracker, use as a filling.
Such a snack can be easily and quickly prepared with canned chickpeas or beans. But we choose the product in our juice without any dressings and sauces. Adding boiled or fried shrimp is allowed, they will fit in perfectly here.
Snack of beans and nuts with onions
A simple but very tasty snack made from boiled beans. It does not need to grind, which further saves time. There is a recipe for a similar salad, but fresh or pickled cucumbers are additionally introduced into it, you can try this option.
Ingredients
- 1 red onion;
- 1 yellow onion;
- 1 tbsp. beans;
- 8 g garlic;
- 1 bunch of greens;
- 0.5 tbsp. nuts;
- 1 tbsp. l olive oil;
- 0.5 tsp. hops suneli;
- 2 tsp. lemon juice.
How to cook
- We soak a glass of dry beans, change the water, put it on the stove, add the yellow onion and cook until ready. Drain the water, throw away the onions, cool the beans.
- Pour the nuts on the pan and dry them. Then we chop with a knife. You can use a blender, but not grind, let pieces remain.
- Squeeze garlic into oil, add hops-suneli, lemon juice and grind it all together.
- Chop finely greens. It can be dill, cilantro, parsley, choose to your taste. Pour into beans.
- Add nuts and garlic oil. Stir thoroughly, salt to your liking. We shift the snack in a bowl.
- Clear the red onion. Cut first in half, and then very thin semirings. We spread on top, serve a snack of beans to the table.
If there is no salad onion, then you can use the usual yellow head, but scald the half rings with boiling water, let the water drain, and then send for a snack.
Jewish snack of chickpeas or beans
Another version of the bean pate. If you cook from chickpeas, it turns out hummus. But out of the beans comes a great snack for all occasions. Mandatory ingredient - sesame.
Ingredients
- 300 g chickpeas or beans;
- 50 g white sesame;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- olive oil;
- 0.5 tsp. zira;
- salt and pepper.
How to cook
- Cook the soaked chickpeas (beans) until soft. Cool, immediately drain the water.
- Warm up the sesame with zira in the pan, send it to the blender, add garlic and three tablespoons of olive oil. Beat until smooth.
- Grind boiled chickpeas, add cooked pasta with sesame, pour in lemon juice and salt.
- Stir the snack carefully. If the consistency does not suit, add a little more olive oil.
- Put the snack in a common plate or in tartlets, grease toast, cracker. It is perfectly stored for several days in the refrigerator.
As you can see, beans can be combined with a variety of products. And from the beans and chickpeas, you can make an unusual, but tasty snack. Let it pleases and surprises!
