Crispy Roasted Chickpeas Two Ways
Crispy Roasted Chickpeas Two Ways
These yummy cooked chickpeas can be flavored just like cheetos!

Flamin Hot

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 can chickpeas
  • 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
  • .5 tsp salt
  • .5 tsp cayenne pepper
  • .5 tsp red crushed pepper
  • .5 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/4 tsp onion powder
  • 1/8 tsp chili powder
  • .5 tsp paprika
  • annatto
  • touch lactic acid
  • .5 tsp cornstarch
  • pinch olive oil

DIRECTIONS

  1. Drain and rinse chickpeas, save the aquafaba. Lay out towel on the counter and roll out the chickpeas to remove the skins and dry them.
  2. In food processor add nutritional yeast, salt, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, paprika, and annatto. Mix then add lactic acid and cornstarch, mix again!
  3. Put some olive oil on chickpeas then toss them around in the seasoning. Put them on air fryer rack and into the air fryer at 400ºf for 15 minutes.
  4. Add aquafaba to spray bottle. As soon as chickpeas are done, spray with aquafaba then coat again in the seasoning. Then back into the air fryer for 1 minute.

Cheesy

INGREDIENTS

DIRECTIONS

  1. Drain the chickpeas, save the aquafaba. Knock off the skins with a towel. Put a piece of parchment paper over your pan and add the chickpeas. Cook at 225-250ºf for about an hour.
  2. Into the food processor I add nutritional yeast, lactic acid, salt, garlic powder, and paprika. Mix it up then add cornstarch.
  3. Now the chickpeas are dehydrated but not cooked so turn the temp up to 350ºf. Spray the chickpeas with aquafaba then toss them in the seasoning, make sure they are fully coated.
  4. Then toss them onto a baking sheet and into the oven for about 10 minutes. When they are done add them right back into the seasoning while they are hot.

 

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