What to make for dinner with chickpeas
A tin of chickpeas is dinner in twenty minutes: chana masala, chole or a quick curry with rice or flatbread. Let us pick one chickpea dinner and show you the video.
We have 60 chickpea dinners to pick from, all cooking videos with captions, which makes a written recipe much more likely to work.
Chickpea dinners people cook
A few of the chickpea videos we pick from, each from a YouTube creator. Tap one to watch it, or use the button above to have one picked for you.
- Chana Masala Recipe | Dhaba Style Easy Chole | Dhaba Style Spicy Chana Masala | Chef Sanjyot Keer · Your Food Lab · 10:44
- Chickpea Curry - 5 Minute Dinner · The Happy Pear · 5:48
- Kala Chana Masala Curry - New Simple Trick Dhaba Style Curry | Black Chickpeas Masala Gravy Curry · Hebbars Kitchen · 4:17
- Chickpea Curry, an (almost) perfect one-pot meal · Rainbow Plant Life · 8:34
- RESTAURANT STYLE CHICKPEA BUTTER MASALA (EASY TO MAKE) | Chole Butter Masala · Curries With Bumbi · 5:58
- Chana masala — Indian-style chickpeas in spicy gravy · Adam Ragusea · 10:36
- Chickpea Patties Recipe | The Best Chickpea Recipe Ever! · Do It Vegan · 2:20
- These Baked Chickpea Balls Is a Protein Bomb! A Simple Chickpea Recipe! · Simple Legumes · 5:36
Tips for cooking with chickpeas
- Tinned chickpeas are already cooked: drain and rinse them, then simmer just long enough to soak up the sauce.
- Mash a few chickpeas against the side of the pan to thicken a curry without cream.
- Dried chickpeas need soaking overnight and a long simmer, so save them for weekends.
How it works
Tap the button and we pick one chickpea dinner at random from our cooking videos. Not feeling it? Pick again; you will not see the same video twice this visit. Happy with it? Watch it on YouTube, or tap "Get the written recipe" and sign in with Google to get the ingredients and steps written out.
Questions about chickpea dinners
Can I use tinned chickpeas?
Yes. Most quick recipes use them. Drain and rinse them first; one 400g tin is roughly two servings in a curry.
What is chana or chole?
Both are words for chickpeas in South Asian cooking, and chole is also the name of a well-known chickpea curry. We count them as chickpea dinners.
Can I pick a vegan chickpea dinner?
Yes. Choose "Vegan" or "Vegetarian" and we only pick from videos chosen for that diet. Glance at the recipe too, as a title can miss an ingredient.
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No ingredient in mind?
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