
Hot chickpeas with spinach & bacon
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Ready in 7 mins
- Easy
- Serves 1
Bored with the same old sandwich at lunchtime? Try this quick and easy low fat snack
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- 1rasher lean back bacon
- 1 thinly sliced garlic clove
- 1 tbsp wine vinegar
- 2-3 tbsp canned chickpeasdrained and washed
- ½ bag baby leaf spinach
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal97
- fat3glow
- saturates1g
- carbs9g
- sugars0g
- fibre2g
- protein9g
- salt1.54g
Method
step 1
Cut the bacon rasher into shreds and cook in a hot non-stick pan with the garlic clove. Stir in the wine vinegar and chickpeas. Toss in the baby leaf spinach, stirring until wilted. Season if you want to, then serve hot.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2004
Comments, questions and tips (12)
Overall rating
Rhirhic
Really enjoyed this meal! Though on advice from other comments, I used smoked bacon and added some plum tomatoes. I also added chilli flakes. It is something I will be making again.
cucadesucre
Loved it. I added cherry tomatoes and I skipped the vinegar and it was delicious.
cduggan
I wanted to use spinach from my garden. I substituted haloumi for the bacon to make a vegetarian version. I took on board the comments re the blandness, I have a jar of tikka masala paste so just added a tablespoon of that. My husband and I both loved it.
missalicet
This was SO nice!! Found the recipe whilst looking for ways to use up small amount of chickpeas I had left over, had everything I needed in the fridge, and was so tasty! Will definately be making again! I used smoked bacon... (extra tasty) and served with some couscous.
alexic74
Having read the reviews, I thought I'd 'spice it up' a bit, so fried with sesame seed oil, added 2 tomatoes, 2 rashers of smoked bacon, a few mushrooms and some lemon juice at the end (the iron from spinach doesn't get absorbed by your body if the chemicals found in lemon juice aren't combined with…