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Pasta and Chickpeas: The $5 Italian Dinner
A creamy, authentic Italian one-pot pasta and chickpeas dish that is filling, healthy, and budget-friendly.
Cook time
20 minutes simmer plus pasta cooking time
Ingredients
8
Steps
10
Filed under: dinner, pasta, vegetarian.
Source channel: Giovanni Siracusa
Key ingredients
Tubetti or Ditalini pasta, Chickpeas, Tomato paste, Garlic, sprigs Fresh rosemary.
Ingredients
- 1 lb Tubetti or Ditalini pasta
- 2 cans Chickpeas (rinsed and drained)
- 1 tbsp Tomato paste (heaping!)
- 4 cloves Garlic (whole)
- 2 sprigs Fresh rosemary
- 7 cups Water (plus more as needed)
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
Method
- In a large pot, sauté whole garlic and rosemary in olive oil.
- Add the chickpeas and sauté to coat.
- Remove the garlic and rosemary sprigs.
- Stir in the tomato paste and water.
- Let it simmer for 20 minutes to marry the flavors.
- Take out about 3/4 of the chickpeas and blend them until smooth.
- Pour the blended chickpea cream back into the pot.
- Add the pasta directly to the beans.
- Season with salt and add a little extra water if it gets too thick.
- Cook until the pasta is tender.