Chickpea soup: a spectacular hot dish!

Chickpea soup is a perfect dish to prepare at home during a family evening, delicious and inviting. Here's how!

Today we are preparing a convivial recipe, ideal for warming the table and the heart: it is chickpea soup, a delicious dish to be enjoyed both as a first course and as a main course. This is a very simple recipe, which can be prepared both with dried chickpeas (soaking them in water before cooking them) and with canned ones.

The trick, then, is to create a savory sauté and flavor the dish with herbs of your choice. You are ready? So let's see how to cook chickpeas to create a wonderful homemade soup !

How to cook chickpea soup

1. First, soak the chickpeas in a bowl of water for at least 10-12 hours to soak them (best done the day before preparation).
2. Once the time has passed, drain and rinse them under cold running water and start preparing.
3. Heat the vegetable broth and in the meantime put the onion, carrot and celery in a large saucepan to fry in extra virgin olive oil. Cut the vegetables into small cubes , so that they are not too big at the end of the preparation.
4. Let's now move on to cooking the chickpeas: put them in the saucepan and leave them on the heat, then after a few minutes start pouring in the broth and bring them to the boil, it will take about 2 hours and add broth as needed (we recommend preparing at least 1 litre/1 liter and means of safety). If you use canned chickpeas, already cooked, however, 10-20 minutes will be enough.
5. You can add a spoonful of tomato concentrate or a cup of puree (about 50-60 g) to give a touch of acidity to the soup.
6. At this point, when the chickpea soup is almost ready, season with salt and pepper and leave it to cook for about ten minutes with the bay leaves and rosemary.
7. Once ready, serve the chickpea soup with toasted bread. Enjoy your meal!

And here is a video recipe to prepare it at home, in this case instead of broth you use simple boiling water:

Do you like dishes that warm your stomach ? Also try all our soup recipes !

If you want, you can also blend part of your soup with the help of the blender to make it creamier.

storage

Keep this tasty first course in an airtight container placed in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.

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