From Quarantine Kitchen: In these extreme times of social isolation and quarantine, I want to show you how to make the most of a few simple ingredients in your pantry, like dried chickpeas or any bean, simple vegetables and some extra virgin olive oil. This rustic chickpea soup is very cost effective, nutritious, easy to make and most of all delicious. The idea is to use up whatever you have in your pantry and fridge. FULL RECIPE BELOW
RECIPE – CHICKPEA SOUP
1 cup dried chickpeas (250 ml), or other beans
2 tbsp. olive oil (30 ml)
1 carrot, diced
1 small onion, diced
1 rib celery, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
5 cups water (1.25 litres)
1 tsp. dried Greek oregano (5 ml)
½ tsp. ground cumin (2 ml)
2 bay leaves
Grated zest of 1 lemon and juice of ½ lemon
Sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper
fresh chopped dill , optional
Squeeze of fresh lemon juice, to finish soup, optional
Splash of olive oil, to finish soup, optional
Soak chickpeas in water for 4 – 6 hours. Drain and rinse with cold water.
Sauté onions , carrots, celery in olive oil on medium heat until golden, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add garlic and cumin and Greek oregano and continue to cook 1 to 2 minutes more or until garlic is golden. Add chickpeas, lemon zest , bay leaves and water. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer for about 40 to 45 minutes or until chickpeas are tender. Season the soup with salt and pepper. Add chopped fresh dill, lemon juice and olive oil. Serve soup hot.
Serves 6
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Beef & Barley Soup: https://youtu.be/6HD6btZBz1w
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42 Comments
Hi Christine. Loved watching you on TV from years ago, and so excited to find all these recipes on You Tube. Family and I love all the new Greek recipes I've tried so far, except for my 2 young grandchildren. As much as I love my Italian meals, I've always loved trying new recipes, yet, keeping our likes and dislikes in mind . I'm about to make this again, and want to send some to my Greek son-in-law's Mom. She's over 80 and quarantined alone, since she's, understandably, afraid to come stay with us. Can I freeze this soup so he can bring it to her? I personally have never liked freezing prepared food, so I'm not comfortable doing so, even though I know my sisters-in-law and friends do it all the time. What do you think?
Do you have a rustic bread recipe to demonstrate?
I would be so interested in seeing that Live show. I am a true believer.
I like you. Remind me of my mom. Lol but great vid made this soup several times
Very positive video
This would be perfect to adapt to cooking in the Instant pot. Yum!
you always send me zephyr that smell lemon, oregano, dill and so on. so nice and beautiful.
Nice easy chick pea soup! Love it for Autumn season coming up. I love how easy it is and quick preparation. And could use dill or spinish as well so yes GREAT idea . Invest in quality olive oil too. Greek foods are new for me . So makes for new seasoning and use of hello! Lemmon. I sometimes use green limes. In my Mexican American soups.
Dear Cristine, I just prepared today your chicken soup. Thank you, thank you just delicious. The best chicken soup I ever made in my life. You are a great teacher to follow. And a great sense of humor. Opa! Wishing you well, I will be saving and making your delicious recipes. 💓🦋
I had chickpeas with couscous the other day (lemon, olive oil). Salad, the next (chickpea, red onion, tomatoes). Gonna try this 😋
This soup is so simple yet filling. I am making this a second time for dinner. Thanks for sharing!
Damn, this woman is so hot! I love her personality and style.
Yellow carrots? Hmm nice.
I like vinegar better than 🍋 on salads.
It needs more lemon! Squeeze the the other half in there and maybe add a tablespoon or two of olive oil towards the end.
Love to watch all the yummy recipes you make and your instructions and the visual is great, very helpful. I am going to try your tsoureki recipe for Easter this year.
A question, about the chickpea soup. I've been told to add the salt at the end of the cooking process. Does adding the salt early on make the chickpeas difficult to cook? Even if they are soaked?
Sorry by difficult I mean are they hard, take longer to soften
Good Video👍🏾The Dill is the kicker and it does enhance the flavors!!!You should be on the Food Network(Good Personality)!!!Awesome Job🙏🏿
OMG I love it 👏
Made it from recipe. Served with sheep’s feta on baguette. Yum!! I thought I didn’t like chickpeas! Thank you, Christine. This was as easy as you said, and tasty enough to go into regular rotation.
I will definitely make this for lunch today! Unfortunately I don’t have dry chickpeas only canned. Looks so good😋😋
Thanks!
Yum, yum. I have to try making this. Looks very user friendly. Thank you for sharing and keeping it simple!
Always like to soak whatever dried bean until it begins to sprout. Not Hard. Start the day before. A[art from flavour look at what is in can, beside beans..?
Love it 😍…Can you please cook moussaka!!
Good recipe but i wd use way less oil as its so fattening it ed take hours of running to run it all off the hips etc eh!
Hi Christine, I love to watch your videos. Your explain everything so easily and make it sound so simple. Makes me feel like " I can do this." I've got my chickpeas soaking now. I will be making your soup tomorrow. 🍋 zest and juice included. Thanks for the great videos and teaching us how to make these great dishes.
Rhonda
You are very natural on camera. Keep it up!
Really nice simple soup! Love it. I have already cooked dried chickpeas and home made chicken/carrot broth and I'm gonna play with what I have and make this right now!
I also freeze fresh herbs – it’s especially great to have my own, homegrown, fresh herbs in winter. I take a different approach: I chop them up fine and put them in ice cube trays, fill the tray with water then freeze. After their frozen, I put them in a freezer bag and voila! For soups you can just drop a cube or two in the stock. You can also thaw in a microwave and drain the water; I usually drop the cube(s) in a glass measuring cup to do that, then run through a strainer. You can also freeze your own homemade pesto – just put the pesto in a freezer bag and put it in the freezer.
Wow, this looks delicious! I am gonna go out and get dried chickpeas and chili flakes!!!! Mahalo nui loa for the inspiration🌺Aloha
I'm over a year late to the party but I'm making this today!
spanakopita and tiropita are one of the few Greek foods that don't have lemon in them.
Looks good. Thanks!
What kind of carrots are those??? Never seen them before.
Love this recipe of chickpea soup. And yes I added spinach dill and more lemon!
Any instant pot recipes?
I going to cook tomorrow. will go and buy some garlic bread. I love garbanzo beans. I am a senior and I get monthly food bank and they give time to time dried beans. I cannot wait to try it. thank you for sharing.
How do you get chickpeas tender? Even canned ones don't seem able to become tender.
Just found your you tube channel. Enjoying your soups. This chick peas and barley soups. I also enjoyed you program on Chinese food shows. Glad I found you. Thank you.
@ChristineCushing….why do you not know why you added a bay leaf but you know all about lemons???
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I was looking for a recipe to use my chick pas, so I will try this recipe!