Legumes and grains
15 minute Mediterranean chickpea skillet
15-Minute Mediterranean Chickpea Skillet! This Mediterranean diet recipe is satisfying, healthy and simple. Make this chickpea recipe for a fast weeknight dinner and use whatever vegetables you have! Vegan, gluten-free…
A fast and simple Mediterranean chickpea skillet! This Mediterranean diet recipe is vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and healthy!
It’s Saturday night and we’re going crazyyyy!!!
Okay actually we're sick, so our plans for today are sitting in our PJs, drinking tea, watching movies and reminiscing about life before Influenza.
For example when we made this Mediterranean chickpea skillet. Good times. We were laughing and eating without the need to blow our nose every 3 minutes. Life was different. It was good.
And so was this simple, 15 minute chickpea skillet that uses basic ingredients you probably have at home right now.
It’s vegan, gluten-free, grain-free and magical.
How it comes together
Here’s what you do. You go open a jar of chickpeas (we still can’t get over the thought of boiling chickpeas for 1 hour – drives us crazy).
Drain and rinse those chickpeas well.
Chop some tomatoes, onions and cook all that for a few minutes.
Then out of nowhere, you come up with the idea to add even more vegetables.
Use whatever you’ve got at home: peppers, zucchini or eggplant, add a lot of garlic & basil and some sesame and nigella seeds.
In the end, put some olive oil to absorb some healthy anti-cancer carotenoids from the tomatoes and peppers.
That’s it. Simple.
Then you dive into this beauty and get one step closer to endless awesomeness. We don’t even know what this means our head is foggy.
Health And Beauty Benefits
If we didn’t have some leftover potato soup from yesterday we'd probably be making this right now, as the garlic in this chickpea skillet can boost our immune system and get rid of that mean Influenza thing in a second.
Other than that you’d be enjoying a dish that is:
- low in calories
- high-fiber
- high-iron
- high-zinc
- antioxidant-rich.
Have a good weekend and make sure to prepare this on Monday evening – that’s starting the week in a positive way!
- Yield: 2
- Prep: 8 minutes
- Cook: 7 minutes
- Total: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 jar/can – about 2 cups of chickpeas, drained & rinsed
- 4 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 1 small zucchini, chopped
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 bell pepper, striped
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tsp nigella seeds
- 10 basil leaves, chopped
Method
- In a large pan with a lid add tomatoes and onion and let simmer at medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes.
- Add chickpeas and stir, let simmer covered with the lid for 5 min.
- Add garlic, zucchini, and bell peppers. Stir together, cover for 2 min.
- Turn off heat, add basil, olive oil. Sprinkle sesame seeds, chili powder and nigella seeds on top.
- Dinner is ready. Serve hot.
