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Chickpea Overload Orzo

This Orzo dish is for everyone who is addicted to chickpeas. It uses them in the form of hummus to make a creamy sauce and once as cooked legumes for texture. Finished with fresh parsley, this recipe will make you fall in love with chickpeas.
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Vorbereitungszeit 10 Minuten
Zubereitungszeit 30 Minuten
Gesamtzeit 40 Minuten
Portionen: 2
Gericht: Main Course
Küche: Mediterranean
Ingredients Equipment Method

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Hummus Sauce
  • 2 Bell peppers
  • 100g Hummus flavoured
  • Fresh parsley handful, stems separated from leaves
  • 1/2 lemon juice
Flavour Base
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 shallots finely diced
  • 2 garlic cloves mince
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
Other
  • 200 g orzo
  • 250 ml vegetable stock
  • 150g fresh spinach
  • 1 (400g can) chickpeas cooked
  • 1 tablespoon ground coriander
  • Salt
  • Fresh black pepper

Kochutensilien

  • 1 Blender/Food-Processor
  • Oven/Air-fryer

Method
 

Make the hummus sauce
  1. If you decide to use the oven, brush the bell peppers with olive oil and broil for 30-40mins on 180°C or until roasted. If you use an airfryer, do the same for 15-20mins. When cooled down, remove the seeds.
  2. Separate the leaves from the parsley stem, and add the latter along with the bell peppers and other sauce ingredients to a food processor. Blend with 50ml of the vegetable stock until you have a smooth consistency.
Cook the orzo
  1. In a pan, heat up the olive oil and sauté the shallots on medium heat until translucent. Add the garlic, continue cooking for 1-2mins and add the tomato paste. Stir until it has dissolved.
  2. Add the orzo and toast in the aromatics for 1-2mins, before cooking it in the rest of the vegetable stock for 5mins.
  3. Add the spinach with salt, black pepper, and continue cooking for 2-3mins with a closed lid.
  4. Add the chickpeas, with salt, black pepper, the ground coriander, and the hummus sauce. Stir until everything is combined and cook for 1-2mins on low heat.
  5. Turn off the heat, add the chopped parsley leaves, adjust the seasoning with salt and black pepper, and mix one last time.