Chilli Pepper Chickpea

Name: Chilli Pepper Chickpea
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 red onion, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 x 400 g tin chickpeas, drained; 1 red pepper, deseeded and roughly chopped; 3 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 chilli, deseeded (optional) and finely chopped; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 stock cubes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

Try saying that quickly three times! A great warming but fresh soup; you can eat it chunky, but if you blend it then you will really taste the nutty flavour of the chickpeas.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 red onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2

Soup
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
March
Summer
Spring

Method

Heat a pot on a medium heat and add the oil or butter. Fry the onion, garlic, chilli, carrots and red pepper for 10 minutes until soft but not coloured.

Stir in the drained chickpeas, give it all a good mix, and then add 1.2 litres of boiling water and the crumbled stock cubes. Bring to the