Salt and Vinegar Roasted Chickpeas
When you have nothing at the ready and a hunger kicks in, you snack right? The problem is that often for blokes trying to manage their weight, it's their snacks that let them down. They grab for quick convenient foods often not knowing that they are high sugar, high fat and thus high calorie.
With a little bit of preparation however, you can prepare excellent snacks at home and take them to work so you have them ready when the hunger kicks in.
These Salt and Vinegar Roasted Chickpeas are an example of that. Taking around 20 minutes to prepare, you've got a snack ready to munch on for the week while driving or between meetings. You still get that little salt-quench that you so like from packet chips but without the fat and with some extra nutritional benefits.
Chickpeas are a staple item in the Mediterranean diet and Middle-Eastern food. Like other legumes, they are high in both fibre and protein and a host of micronutrients such as iron, phosphate, calcium, manganese, zinc, and vitamin K which are all associated with good health.
Chick peas are often eaten as part of sales or even crushed into hummus (one of my favourite healthy dips) but in this recipe, the chickpea is the standalone star...
Ingredients:
You don't need to measure out the ingredients. Just rough amounts are fine...
- 2 cans of chickpeas;
- 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil;
- 3 tablespoons white vinegar;
- 1 teaspoon sea salt;
"HOW TO":
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Drain and rinse your chickpeas first;
Dry them with paper towel and toss in olive oil using a tupperware container.
Lay chickpeas out onto a flat tray or pan and bake for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes cooking, remove from the oven and add vinegar and mix to coat chickpeas. Next add salt and again, mix to coat before returning to the oven. Cook until chickpeas are crunchy - this should be around 5-10 minutes.
And there you have it! It couldn't get simpler, right?
