Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients! This week I picked up a 7 oz bag of garam masala for $1.79 at my local produce store. When you’re shopping for ethnic spices, you’ll often find a much better deal when you look outside the regular aisle with McCormick, etc., and I found mine alongside their other Indian foods.
You can also always pick up chickpeas cheap at ALDI or at your local produce store (again, sometimes they’re cheaper in the “ethnic” aisles as garbanzo beans, so this is an always affordable and easy gluten free dairy free snack.
Sweet & Spicy Oven Roasted Chickpeas
Ingredients
One can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp Kosher salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tsp brown sugar
Directions
Drain and rinse chickpeas, then pat as dry as possible between paper towels. A number of the skins will slide off, so just discard those. In separate bowl, mix olive oil, spices, and brown sugar. Add chickpeas and toss until well coated.
Spread spiced chickpeas in single layer on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes, stirring after 15 minutes, then turn off heat and leave in oven another 10-15 minutes so that they get crispier. Be sure to check them at 25 minutes so that they don’t get a little overdone like mine did, lol! (Although they were still darn tasty…)
Mix it up
These addictive little crunchy nuggets came out nicely sweet & spicy, with an underlying nuttiness from the roasted chickpeas. If you’re not a garam masala fan, though, spice them up any way you’d like — try chili powder and garlic salt, or if you’re not dairy free perhaps try Parmesan and garlic powder… whatever works for your family’s tastes. When my family tasted these, the kids and I devoured the whole batch within 15 minutes. I think I’ll double the recipe next time!
Sweet & Spicy Oven Roasted Chickpeas, printable recipe
Sweet & Spicy Oven Roasted Chickpeas
Ingredients
- 1 can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1/4 tsp Kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 2 tsp brown sugar
Instructions
- Drain and rinse chickpeas, then pat as dry as possible between paper towels. A number of the skins will slide off, so just discard those.
- In separate bowl, mix olive oil, spices, and brown sugar.
- Add chickpeas and toss until well coated.
- Spread spiced chickpeas in single layer on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes, stirring after 15 minutes, then turn off heat and leave in oven another 10-15 minutes so that they get crispier.
- Be sure to check them at 25 minutes so that they don't get a little overdone like mine did, lol! (Although they were still darn tasty...)
Jane
Monday 27th of October 2014
I have to try this recipe except I have some chick peas I just boiled up from dry. Do you think this will work OK? I know they will need more salt since the canned contain plenty sodium. I was planning on making a batch of hummus but my 1/2 bag of dried is way too many to make 1 recipe of hummus. I will try your baked recipe with the extra 1/2. I do not have the garam masala, so I will use garlic and chili powder instead.
By the way....try sprinkling garlic powder and chili powder on a bag of butter popcorn. It is to die for!
rachel
Monday 27th of October 2014
Yes, they'll probably be even better, lol -- Just make sure they are as dry as possible before roasting (if you just boiled them up now I'd leave them out on paper towels for a while, then pat dry) or they won't get crunchy.