Here's the story of why I made these recipes. I always make brownies to celebrate the first Brown's game (it makes them losing not hurt so bad, right?) and I had planned on revamping those chocolate chip cookies with chickpeas but didn't want to make two desserts so I did a search for chickpea brownies and found this recipe. It turned out so good that I wanted to see what other chickpea recipes were on the same blog and found chicken with apricots, tomatoes and chickpeas. Sometimes I choose recipes solely based on whether or not I already have the ingredients and I did so I ended up making the chicken too! The Brownies were excellent and the chicken dinner was good. But first the brownies!
I made a half recipe since I wasn't sure how these would be and they were fantastic. I loved the texture and flavor. I had put some peanut butter chips on top of a little bit of it in case it needed more flavor but I'm glad I didn't cover the whole thing because it was unnecessary. The picture doesn't make them look as good as they taste because they are a bit crumbly (but only a bit!) so they were hard to cut. Go check out the recipe, there's no flour! It's just chickpeas, chocolate chips, honey, eggs and baking powder. Crazy.
The chicken recipe had some very strange flavors but they all worked together when you throw them in the same pot. The only part of the recipe I altered was that I used a half can of chickpeas. I'm really glad I did because you can tell by looking at the picture that a whole can would have been way too much. Plus I found mini-cans of chickpeas at Marc's so now I don't have a half can of chickpeas sitting in the fridge waiting to be used.
Chickpeas or no, I want those brownies.
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