Roasted Ceci

Submitted by BarbryT

"a.k.a. roasted garbanzo beans/chickpeas. People always are looking for healthy snacks and unless you are on a low sodium diet, this fits. They also add nicely to homemade snack blends (e.g., chex mixes, Giada's Ceci, Pistachio and Almond mix and the like).EDITED 9-8-07 Given the comments about the beans remaining somewhat soft inside, and realizing people expect them to be crispy, yesterday I made a double batch, cooked as indicated and then turned the oven to 275 and left them in for another hour to hour and a half. They were perfectly crunchy."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Yields: 2 cups
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 473.18 ml cooked garbanzo beans (rinsed and dried) or 425.24 g can garbanzo beans (rinsed and dried)
• 14.79 ml olive oil
• sea salt

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Spread garbanzo beans on half sheet pan, dribble olive oil over them and use your (clean) hands to mix.
3. Roast for 40 minutes, shaking the pan every 12 minutes or so, until quite brown and crisp.
4. (May leave in oven for another hour or two at 250 to 275 for additional crisping.).
5. Sprinkle with sea salt to taste.
6. Cool. Serve.
7. Can recrisp, if necessary, by heating for 5 minutes in a 375 degree oven.

Reviews

[LARavenscroft]

Made for Recipe Swap #19 Aus/NZ. I didn't have real good luck with these, but I've tried making them before and didn't have good luck then either. It's probably just me. Anyway, I do like chick peas and I will try these again.

 

[Dreamer in Ontario]

Great snack. I followed the recipe as written but shook the pan fewer times. They came out nice and crunchy.

 

[karen]

I've had my eye on this recipe for awhile, and finally decided to make it for a snack last night. They beans came out nice & crunchy. I cooked it for about 45 minutes at 375 and then lowered the temp to 275 for 30 minutes. I didn't find the salt stuck to them enough, so I sprinkled them with some homemade seasoned salt to add flavor. It helped, but they were a little too plain for me. I think they would be good in a trail mix, and nut lovers would probably love them.

 

[Mommy Diva]

I had no trouble getting mine to roast up evenly. I did shake the pan around multiple times during the baking, and I roasted them at 370degrees for 45 minutes. I got a bit too much oil on mine, but after sprinkling the salt, had thought to drain on a paper towel, and it wasn't needed. They were great warm too! YUMMY! Thank you for posting an easy, healthy snack!

 

[lucid501]

This was a very different recipe for me. I love hummus, but had never had chickpeas by themselves. The time and temp of this recipe was perfect for my oven, and these had a nice crunch to them. I think that additional seasoning would be better for my tastes though, rather than just the salt. I will try again, using this technique as a base. Thanks for posting!