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Chickpea meatballs – ‘s recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Place the chickpeas in a blender with cheese, egg, broken bread, mustard, chives, salt and pepper.
Blend until you obtain a malleable mixture.

Cut the scamorza into cubes.

Take 1 knob of chickpea mixture, crush it in the palm of your hand, place a cube of scamorza in the center and close the mixture over it to form a ball.
Continue in the same way until all the ingredients are used up.

Beat the egg with the milk and a pinch of salt; dip each meatball first in the egg and then in the breadcrumbs.

When they are all ready, fry the meatballs in hot oil, turning them to obtain uniform browning and then draining them on kitchen paper.
Alternatively, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper, sprinkle with a little oil and cook in a preheated fan oven at 200°C for about 20 minutes, turning them halfway through cooking.

The chickpea meatballs are ready, serve them hot or warm to keep the cheese soft and stringy.

Chickpea salad: simple, but tasty with this recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

If I think to the chickpea salad i immediately come to mind summer luncheswhen it’s so hot that just the idea of cooking becomes a nightmare but the hunger – as always – is great, despite the high temperatures.

It is precisely in these moments that in mine brain a light bulb goes on and I remember I have that in the pantry jar of chickpeas ready made that I forgot I had. Instead he is there, ready to be used and to do me happygiving me a tasty, quick and fresh lunch or dinner!

The chickpea salad, then, is completed before my eyes with what I have in it refrigerator: tomatoes, olives, onions, celery, cheese (feta for example is a perfect match with chickpeas) but also the avocadoThe tuna, everything you like! I prepared it like this in the last few days and I must say that everyone liked it!

Chickpea salad: the recipe

Ingredients

400 g of pre-cooked chickpeas
500 g of cherry tomatoes or date tomatoes
200 g of black olives
1 onion
basil to taste
lemon juice to taste
Salt to taste
pepper as needed
extra virgin olive oil to taste

Method

1. Start preparing the chickpea salad by draining the chickpeas well legumes and then washing them carefully under running water to eliminate the preservation liquid.

2. Add the chickpeas in a large container and then season it with the juice of one lemon and a spoonful of extra virgin olive oil, stirring them delicately and letting them flavor for about ten minutes.

3. In the meantime, cut the halved cherry tomatoes and peel and cut the onion into the shape you like best, then adding the two ingredients in the bowl with the chickpeas.

4. Also add the chopped olives and the finely chopped basil.

5. Season the chickpea salad with a little more oil and season with salt and pepper.

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.