Italian

Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas)

Name: Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas)
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 cup ditalini pasta; 2 cans canned chickpeas; 3 garlic cloves; 1 sprig rosemary; 2 tbsp tomato paste; 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 3 cups vegetable broth; 1/2 tsp salt

Giulia @giulia_torino

Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 cup ditalini pasta
2 cans canned chickpeas
3 garlic cloves
1 sprig rosemary
2 tbsp tomato paste
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3 cups vegetable broth
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Warm the olive oil in a pot and cook the garlic and rosemary until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Stir in the tomato paste and cook 1 minute more.
Add the chickpeas and vegetable broth, bring to a simmer, and cook 12 minutes.
Mash about a third of the chickpeas against the side of the pot to thicken the broth.
Stir in the ditalini and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes, adding a splash of water if it thickens too much.
Season with salt and serve hot, drizzled with a little more olive oil.

Watch how to cook Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 470 kcal
Protein: 17 g
Carbs: 68 g
Fat: 14 g
Fiber: 9 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 710 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta e Ceci (Pasta and Chickpeas) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.