{"id":22990,"date":"2018-07-15T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/?p=22990"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:13:17","slug":"chinese-5-spice-chickpeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimmingeats.com\/blog\/chinese-5-spice-chickpeas","title":{"rendered":"Chinese 5 Spice Chickpeas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chinese 5 spice Chickpeas - the perfect quick and easy recipe for anyone looking for a meat-free Chinese Fakeaway meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I'm not vegetarian, but I love adding in meat-free dishes to my week. The beauty of vegetarian dishes is that they can often be made easily on a budget with store cupboard ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My pantry cupboard is stocked full with varies dried beans and lentils as well as canned things like chickpeas, butter beans, black beans etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love to have these things on hand, because I know if I get busy with something and it close approaches meal time I can grab something out of the cupboard and have something quick and delicious on the table in minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good food doesn't always need to combine expensive ingredients. So if you are on a tight budget and need to keep shopping costs down, check out my Slimming Eats - 20 Tips for shopping on a Budget<\/a><\/strong><\/span> post for some awesome tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately, I've been loving chickpeas. They are great in salads or in this amazing Roasted Sweet Potato Hummus<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>- which is my kids favourite hummus recipe of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's gone pretty much as soon as it's made an placed in a dish for them to dig into with some crackers or chips (veggie crudites for me though of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to enjoy some chickpeas in your salad? Here are two of my favourite ways to do them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly drain and rinse a can of chickpeas under cold running water, then I spray a frying pan with cooking oil spray, add in the chickpeas and fry for a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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