I love adding chickpeas to my salads, mixing them in with vegetables, making Hummus with them and recently using it as a crust to my mini pizzas :)
I try to avoid gluten and wheat as much as possible especially at home. So I use alternatives such as buckwheat, quinoa, nut flours, coconut flour, sweet potatoes and chickpeas.
I have previously posted a pizza recipe made with sweet potato which I absolutely love! However, not everyone likes the taste of sweet potato so i tried grinding chickpeas in a food processor and blended it into flour and I must say it has been a success at home :D
Here is how I made it step by step with pictures to follow.
- Soak 1/2 cup of chickpea flour (grind up chickpeas in a food processor into flour) in 3/4 cup of water. Leave it to set for 30 minutes.
- Cook it like how you would cook pancakes. The batter consistency will be more watery though. I used a table spoon of the batter for each mini pizza.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes then flip.
- While the chickpea is soaking for thirty minutes at the beginning, start preparing your sun dried tomato paste (you will find it below in one of the previous posts). Keep aside.
-Sauté your favourite vegetables. I used red onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes. Keep aside.
- Assemble the chickpea patties on a baking tray, put a teaspoon of the sun dried tomato paste on each followed by the sautéed vegetables.
- Add some olives.
- Sprinkle some nutritional yeast (optional) then bake for a few minutes (around 10 minutes) at 220c.
Thats it!
You could even add zataar or vegan cheese for different variations :)
Enjoy!
