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| Pasta e ceci - Pasta and chickpeas |
Two hard days.
My twenty years old aquatic turtle Sorriso
isn't fine. She has a bacterial infection. I found out it yesterday and this
morning I went to vet. In next days I treat her with some stuff and she also needs
some injections. I'll make it! Me!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I needed comfort. A comfort food:
simple, healthy and good! Perfect for an autumn/winter day too. I don't know
why but after a winter that was like spring (14/15° at Christmas, 20° in
February) these first days of spring are cold and it's snowing somewhere in center
Italy. It's a crazy world.
No photos cause pasta e ceci is a
very simple recipe.
I usually use dried chickpeas so I
had to soak them in a bowl of cold water all night long.
You need few other ingredients:
- an half onion
- a clove of garlic
- one medium size carrot
- one medium size potato
- oil
- salt
- pepper
- celery and rosemary are perfect too but I hadn't.
Chop onion,
garlic, carrot and potato and let them brown in a large heavy pot (see the
photo).
Drain the
chickpeas, add them to other ingredients and stir. Add cold water and bring to
boil. Reduce heat and simmer until chickpeas are soft.
Done!
I blended
and I let some chickpeas unblended (does this word exist???). I added little
pasta and a lot of black pepper.
Two
portions: yesterday dinner and today lunch.
Wonderful,
warm, lovable.
Me and
Sorriso feel little better now.
It's a crazy year already. I can see why some simple comfort is just what you needed - glad you feel a little better now.
ReplyDeleteThis takes me back to eating pasta and chickpeas in Puglia on holiday last year.
ReplyDeleteGet well soon Sorriso!