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Vegan cauliflower and chickpea meatballs – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Cook the cauliflower to the steam until it becomes tender. Drain it well and let it cool.
In a blenderjoin the cauliflower cooked ham, chickpeas, red onion, garlic cloves, cumin, paprika, salt and black pepper. Blend until you get a homogeneous compound.

Chickpea curry – Recipe by – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

First, rinse the rice under running water until the water comes out clear, so that the rice loses its starch.

Peel the onion, chop it and sauté half of it (without browning it) in a saucepan with the butter.
Keep the other half aside, you will use it for the chickpeas.

Add cinnamon and cloves and leave to flavour, then add the rice, toast it for a few minutes, then add the already hot broth, cover with a lid and leave to cook for about 15 minutes (or until the rice has absorbed all the broth) over medium-low heat without stirring.
Once ready, turn off the heat and fluff the rice with the tines of a fork to separate the grains.

While the rice is cooking, proceed with the chickpeas: brown the onion in a large non-stick pan with the oil, then add the spices (except the pepper) and leave to flavour.

Also add chickpeas, coconut milk, cornstarch and pepper and mix over low heat until the sauce has thickened forming a cream.

At this point you can plate, placing the rice on one side and the curry chickpeas on the other.

That’s all, the chickpea curry is ready to be enjoyed, possibly with another sprinkling of paprika.

Homemade chickpea hummus: recipe and ingredients – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

L’chickpea hummus it is a characteristic dish of Middle Eastern countries, a sauce that can be served as an appetizer based on legumes, herbs and paprika. It is easily prepared and is a totally vegetarian dish with an unmistakable flavour.

This chickpea cream comes from Middle East, where chickpea (in Arabic “hummus”) has been cultivated for more than ten thousand years. A tradition that is now also part of the typically Italian Mediterranean diet.

It pairs easily with any dish, whether meat or fish; It is suitable for people on a diet vegan but also for those who are intolerant to dairy productsbecause in fact it is a flavored legume concentrate!

Having a very light base, both in terms of simple ingredients and taste, hummus can be seasoned with spices which you prefer: the most recommended one is sweet paprika (powder), but nutmeg or chilli pepper are also perfect!

You can also decide to use it as a side dish dip of vegetables, to prepare a different aperitif, more complete, but in any case genuine and light. Its ingredients make chickpea hummus rich in beneficial properties: antioxidants make it an anti-aging, anti-tumor and diuretic food, capable of improving digestion thanks to the fact that it is low in saturated fats.

Don’t miss the other variations! Have fun discovering bean hummus, Of spinach and fetaOf beets and of avocado!