Good morning, v today goes a nice plate of pasta and chickpeas? With this recipe we immerse ourselves in the oldest Italian peasant tradition. The pasta and chickpeas, like all pasta dishes and soups with legumes, They are widespread in many regions. From Sicily to Campania, from Latium to Tuscany. With regard to the pasta and chickpeas, each region, but I would even say every family, has many variants. Some people put the tomato sauce, those fresh tomatoes, who an anchovy, about a little’ of bacon or ham bone.
Recipes with legumes: an Italian tradition
If you love the first traditional dishes based on legumes, you can not try the classic PASTA AND LENTILS And the PASTA AND BEANS with summer beans. But the sicilianissimo BROAD BEANS, that are in VIDEO RECIPE stepping on my YouTube channel. In the recipe for pasta and chickpeas also find all my advice on the soaking time for this type of legumes. And of course have a look at all my RECIPES WITH CHICKPEAS, vegan but not only.
I prepare in the simplest way my grandmother did. Only chickpeas, some’ Onion and garlic, a piece of celery and onion, salvia e pepe nero. My creative Variant’ Although in this case is a ' civilized’ is related to the use of the ham bone in the soup. A habit especially in central Italy, that is not in the Sicilian tradition. I do not put the ham bone, but complete the dish with a shower of crunchy chunks of ham dried in the oven. Obviously, you can not put the crispy ham, but I assure you that gives the dish flavor and crispiness. The pasta and chickpea soup is perfect for a little evening’ cold, When you are a little’ tired or just a little’ sad and you feel like a hug. My favorite pasta shape are grooved tubes, but also a nice mixed of Gragnano.