These honey sesame roasted chickpeas are roasted, drizzled with a sweet and savory honey coating and quickly back to the oven for crispy addictive chickpeas.
Want some crispy, crunchy, chickpea snack perfection? Well you came to the right place.
Chickpeas are a beautiful blank canvas. A canvas that’s just begging you to mess around with all kinds of spices to create tasty bold flavors. Today I did a little sweet and savory ditty. Sweet honey, that distinct sesame flavor which makes these the perfect crunchy snack.
I know right now everyone is roasting pumpkin seeds, but I’m so not in the mood. Like at all. So I roasted chickpeas instead.
Start by draining and rinsing two cans of chickpeas.
Next dump them out onto a metal sheet pan that’s either lined with parchment or a silicon mat.
Then give the pan a shake so the beans are in an even layer. Slide the pan into a preheated 400F oven and roast for 40 minutes.
Meanwhile quickly mix together the glaze. Measure 1/4 cup honey add 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil and 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt.
Lovely.
These are what 40 minutes in a 400 degree oven does to chickpeas. They are dried out little nuggets of goodness.
While they’re still warm, drizzle that honey concoction over top. Bust out the spatula and scrape every ounce of that sticky glaze onto the pan.
Toss…
Sprinkle with sesame seeds, then toss (again) and send them back into the oven for 10 more minutes or until caramelized. The honey will harden even more as the chickpeas cool for the ultimate crunchy coat. After the Honey Sesame Roasted Chickpeas cool a bit, you’ll notice the honey coating has candied on the outside creating a delicious crunchy outer shell.
Now you can serve as is or for some crunch, top your favorite salad with them.
Enjoy! And if you give this Honey Sesame Roasted Chickpeas recipe a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!
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Honey Sesame Roasted Chickpeas
Ingredients
- 2 (15 ounce) cans chickpeas, drained, rinsed and patted dry
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
Instructions
- Arrange the chickpeas on a large, rimmed metal sheet pan. Roast in a preheated 400 degree oven for 40 minutes.
- Meanwhile, whisk together honey, toasted sesame oil and salt.
- Once the chickpeas are roasted, remove and drizzle with the honey mixture and toss around. Sprinkle with the sesame, stir to coat the chickpeas and then slide them back into the oven for 10 more minutes or until caramelized.
- Allow to cool (honey will harden to a candy coating) before serve.
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These look great! I love the sweet twist on my usually salted roasted chickpeas!
This is suuuuuch a yummy looking snack! Loving the looks of this!
What a great snack! Love the idea of the sweet and salty combo.
These look unreal!! I am a huge chickpea lover and eat chickpeas in every shape and form all the time. I will be trying this recipe very soon!
Yum! This looks great!
What a brilliant idea.
I love to add a few garbanzo beans to a salad of mixed greens, just gives a little nutty flavor and helps fill me up. But the idea of using them for snacks like this is a good change.
Just made these. Fyi, don’t do what I did and use aluminum foil. Bad idea. My brain must have been on vacation.
Also, if you make this recipe, consider sprinkling the sesame seeds onto the chickpeas at the end rather than adding them to the honey, sesame oil, and salt mixture. I say this because I noticed that a lot of sesame seeds wound up stuck to surfaces other than the chickpeas.
That said, these are a delicious snack! I will definitely make them again, but without the use of foil, and try a slight tweak with the sesame seeds.
These look unreal! I am going to HAVE to try these!!!
Thank you, Georgie!
Really, really good!!! Great change from my typical spiced peas