’m always on the hunt for tasty snacks to take to work with me and I came across a BBC recipe for spicy chickpeas and this is how I made them:

Ingredients:

  • 1 can of chickpeas (400g)
  • 1 teaspoon of sunflower oil
  • 1 teaspoon of chili flakes

Method:

  • Turn the oven onto 190 and while it’s heating up prepare the chickpeas by draining, washing and coating them in oil and chili flakes (I put the washed chickpeas in a bowl and added the oil and flakes and mix it to make sure they were evenly coated).
  • Spread the chickpeas out on a piece of baking parchment on a baking tray and pop in the oven.
  • Once cool, sprinkle with a little bit of salt.
  • Bake for 40 minutes (although the BBC say 25 minutes I accidentally left them in the oven for longer!).

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Portions:

According to the BBC site, there are 80 calories, 4.5g of protein and 10g of carbs  in a 100g portion, and during the week I am planning on splitting this down to a 20g portion as a light snack while I’m at work.

Once cooked I split the chickpeas down into snack posts and 1 tin of chickpeas yielded 3 x 20g and 1 x 15g pots (which prob works out just over 100g of non dried chickpeas per pot).