Chickpea Recipes: An Easy Chickpea Recipe For Puree With Crackers And Cheese

Recipe

Appetizer

Chickpea Puree With Crackers And Herb Cream Cheese

By FDL

An easy chickpea recipe, perfect if you're looking for a vegetarian appetizer: chickpea puree with crackers and herb cream cheese

Ingredients

For the chickpea puree

Chickpeas 2 x 400 g tins, drained and rinsed
Garlic 1 clove, crushed
Olive oil 125 ml
Lemon 1, juiced
Paprika 2 tsp
Chive snipped, to garnish

For the herb cream cheese

Cream cheese 200 g
Yoghurt 2 tbsp, natural
Parsley 2 tbsp, chopped
Mint 2 tbsp leaves, chopped
Thyme 2 tbsp leaves, chopped

To serve

Zucchini 1, cut into batons
Crackers

Info box

Preparation time 40 m
Recipe category Appetizer
Recipe yield 4

Preparation

For the chickpea puree, place the chickpeas, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and one teaspoon of the paprika in a food processor and pulse to make a coarse puree. Season with salt and pepper and place in a serving bowl. Scatter over the remaining paprika and the snipped chives.

For the herb cream cheese, beat together the cream cheese, yoghurt and chopped herbs and season with salt and pepper.

Serve the chickpea puree and herb cream cheese with the zucchini and crackers.