📖 Cuban Garbanzos Fritos
Garbanzos Fritos is a delicious and flavourful Cuban dish. Easy to prepare, this chickpea-based meal is adaptable: skip the chorizo to make it a vegetarian meal. This recipe uses pantry ingredients and is ready in about 30 minutes.
Servings: 4 portions
Calories: 44kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tomatoes medium size, diced
- 1 pepper red, yellow or orange
- 10-15 slices chorizo
- 1 can chickpeas 250g or dried chickpeas previously soaked and cooked
- 1 cup tomato sauce plain
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon Oregano
- ½ teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- First, wash and chop all your produce.
- Dice your onion, tomatoes, and pepper. And drain your chickpeas and slice your chorizo. Set aside
- In a hot pan, sauté the garlic and onion in a little of olive oil - big enough to get all your ingredients in.
- After about 2 minutes, once, the onion, pepper and garlic are golden and fragrant, add your fresh tomatoes, chorizo, tomato sauce, chickpeas, oregano, cumin and salt.
- Reduce the heat and let it simmer for 20-25 minutes.
- Serve alone or with some rice and enjoy!
Notes
- Great make ahead recipe: 2-3 days in the fridge in an air-tight container
- Versatile: skip chorizo to make it vegetarian
- Spice it up with some pepper flakes!
Nutrition
Calories: 44kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 615mg | Potassium: 369mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 800IU | Vitamin C: 14mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 1mg