Vegetarian

Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas takes 15 minutes to prepare.

Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas takes 10 minutes to cook.

Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas makes 4 servings.

The ingredients for Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas are:

1 cup water
3/4 cup uncooked whole wheat couscous
1 medium onion, chopped
1 tablespoon Olive Oil (I used cooking spray instead)
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans or chickpeas, rinsed and drained (I used 1/2 cup dry beans and followed package instructions to soak and cook them prior to making the recipe)
1 can (14-1/2 ounces) no-salt-added stewed tomatoes, cut up (I used 1 quart of drained home-canned tomatoes)
1 can (14 ounces) water-packed artichoke hearts, rinsed, drained and chopped (I only had 1/2 a can left and used only that amount)
1/2 cup Greek olives, coarsely chopped (I used about 4 servings of olives, more than 1/2 cup, to make up for using fewer artichoke hearts)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
Dash pepper
Dash cayenne pepper (didn't have on hand so used crushed red pepper flakes instead)

Here is how you make Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas:

In a small saucepan, bring water to a boil. Stir in couscous. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand for 5-10 minutes or until water is absorbed. Fluff with a fork. Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet, saute onion in oil (I used cooking spray) until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Sir in the garbanzo beans, tomatoes, artichokes, olives, lemon juice, oregano and peppers. Cook and stir until heated through. Serve with couscous. Made the way the original recipe from the magazine states, the nutrition info would be:Nutrition Facts: 1 cup garbanzo bean mixture with 2/3 cup couscous equals 340 calories, 10 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 677 mg sodium, 51 g carbohydrate, 9 g fiber, 11 g protein. Number of Servings: 4Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user KDKOSMO.

The nutritional information for Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 318.0

• Total Fat: 6.0 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 873.6 mg
• Total Carbs: 56.3 g
• Dietary Fiber: 8.2 g
• Protein: 10.7 g

The dietary needs meet for Healthy Cooking Mediterranean Chickpeas is Low Fat