Chicken… SO last season. Chickpeas are where it’s at, people.
Ok so I actually just think meat is yucky, and I love chickpeas, and I wish everyone else loved them as much as I do.
Saturday night, a friend came over, and we made the Chickpea Taco recipe that I found on Happy Herbivore. I omitted the Tamari, but kept everything else pretty much the same.
These babies were delicious. We threw them in a taco shell with some lettuce and *bam*, vegan dinner right there.
My friend has eaten with me enough to know that I like to take pictures of everything, but I might have been pushing it when I grabbed his plate, stuck it in the light box, and snapped a few shots. (I realized I didn’t have a picture of the finished product!!) Hehe 
But doesn’t it look good?
I also whipped up some black bean soup! I saw this Weight Watchers Recipe on Eating Bird Food‘s blog. I did some tweaking (so now it’s vegan!), and here’s what I ended up using:
Vegan Black Bean Soup (adapted from this WW recipe)
- 2 cups black beans
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup vegetable broth (I used the kind that is supposed to taste like chicken)
- 1 med onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp cilantro (I didn’t have fresh cilantro, so I just used the dried stuff)
- 1/4 tsp cumin
- 1/4 tsp lime juice (I just use the concentrate stuff)
- dash of chili powder
- black pepper to taste
Dice your onion and cook it in a skillet with the garlic and olive oil, until it’s nice and tender. In a pot, bring the water and broth to a boil and add in your beans. Add in all the spices + cooked onions, and let simmer for 10-15 minutes. Let cool, slightly and then throw it into a blender or food processor (or vita mix, hehe) and puree until almost smooth. I like to leave it a little bit chunky. (I actually pureed it, and then added a few more beans, for maximum chunkiness.) I then topped it with tortilla strips. So tasty.
So we ended up with a pretty good [Vegan] Mexican themed dinner.
This meal was followed by an epic night of dancing at the Girl Talk concert. Fun stuff
What was the best meal you had this weekend?
<3 Liz
Chickpea tacos? How perfect! I have chickpeas in the fridge begging to be used/eaten/obliterated =)
Thanks girl!
xoXOxo
jenn
I don’t care for meat that much either, so this recipe is so right up my alley!! Totally trying this!!
Those chickpeas look awesome! I meant to make some yesterday with a very similar recipe and then time just slipped away.
My fave meal was last night…pumpkin salsa soup and jalepeno cheesey beer bread!
Chickpeas rule so hard! And that soup looks delicious as well!
how wonderful!! lovin the veganism!
i don’t care for meat either! loveeeeeeeeee chickpeas! have you tried tina’s (carrotsncake.com) salt n’ vinegar version?! SO good.
Ohh I’m definitely going to have to try those!!!
I heart chickpeas. They’re good for adding a little extra “bulk” to any meal… especially salads!
I’ll have to try them in a wrap as “chicken” sometime soon… especially since I love the idea of prepping them in taco seasoning!
Yumm I love them on my salads too!!! Well, I LOVE hummus on my salads, but the salad bar at work never has an, so I figure chickpeas are the next best thing
The best meal I had this weekend was definitely the sushi dinner my husband made for me! Yum!
The best meal I had this weekend was pancakes yesterday morning! I love breakfast foods
I make Chickpea “nuggets” and eat them on salads, they are AMAZING! You just blend up chickpeas, oats, garlic, onion and whatever else and shape them into little nugget things, and bake them! So easyyy, so YUMMY!
Most excellent post. Chickpeas are one of my favorite foods ever!I totally am making a chickpea taco.
I’m saving both these recipes. The tacos look so good! I love love love chickpeas! You can do so much with them like make falafel, hummus, roast them, or just eat them the way they are.
The best meal I had this week was baked salmon with a yogurt sauce
These tacos look fabulous! I have an obsession with Mexican food
I love chickpeas!!! And that chickpea taco looks really yummy! I can almost imagine it being ground beef if I squint a little (or is that just grossing you out a little? hehe…)