Moroccan Chickpeas With Chard Recipe (2024)

Superb: delicious, healthy, economical. The recipe yields a great deal of food and it freezes well. Lots of opportunities to substitute here while staying true to the spirit of the dish: Try this with spinach if you've no chard; sub squash for turnip, etc. if you don't have preserved lemons on hand, simmer a diced lemon in a little olive oil, salt and sugar until it caramelises; stir in near the end of cooking.

Folks, as an FYI: You can cook dried chickpeas in bulk and then freeze them, for the convenience of canned minus the downsides. Also, after soaking my dry chickpeas overnight, I just put em in my Zojirushi rice cooker on the brown rice setting, water just to cover, and let em do their thing while I'm at work....

Use canned chickpeas. Dried ones were still not quite tender after 2 hours. Use modified version of Mark Bittmans recipe for preserved lemons. Dice organic lemon and mix with 2 teaspoons sugar and 1 teaspoon salt. Let stand at room temperature for a few hours. Sunsweet brand apricots were wonderful.

This was very tasty. I made it with canned chickpeas, halving the entire recipe, and it worked out fine. I simmered them for 30 minutes. Like others, I did not have preserved lemon and omitted that. Next time I will reduce the cinnamon by half as it overpowered some of the other spices. I would also increase the amount of chard leaves.

Chickpeas and other beans take much longer to cook to softness when cooked in an acidic solution (tomato paste). Try cooking the chickpeas separately, then adding them when almost soft. Adding 1/2 tsp. of baking soda to otherwise plain boiling water (good if you have hard water) will also speed up the cooking time; just don't reuse the cooking water as stock if you do this.

You are right about chickpeas needing more time to cook: I soak them overnight, and then also boil them for half an hour by themselves. Other writers have mentioned upping the spices: definitely! I double the amount suggested. This stew is absolutely delicious, and it can be on the stove all day. Just be sure to add the apricots, preserved lemon, and chard at the last minute, as advised.

I just made this with Palouse Brand chick peas from Washingtom State. I soaked them overnight, and they cooked in exactly 1 1/2 hours. They made a popping noise when I drained them, which I had never heard before. I was really worried about cooking time when I read the comments. I guess the quality and age of the chick peas must make a huge difference. As for "huge," this recipe makes a huge amount of stew, which barely fit in the pot.

This is, actually, an easy recipe. Granted, it does take a bit of time. To speed things up substitute drained, rinsed, canned chickpeas. Trader Joe's has jarred preserved lemons. I'm not a fan of 'soapy' cilantro and I substitute Italian flat-leaf parsley. It's a tasty vegetarian entrée ( healthy, too ). Serve it with naan or a crusty bread. If you have the time, use the dried chickpeas — they're worth it.

This was so good! I upped the spices by 50%, reduced the salt by 50%, pre cooked the chickpeas to reduce overall cooking time, and substituted a softball sized summer squash for the turnip. Next time I will used a little more dried apricot; that was the one ingredient that kind of got lost. I made it a day before serving it, so the flavors could meld. Served with couscous this recipe easily feeds 10 adults, maybe 12. Freezes well.

I needed to use up chard, fennel and a big turnip so this fit the bill. I doubled the spices, used chicken stock, and added a drained can of petite chopped tomatoes. Simmered 30 min, then added 2 cans of chickpeas & simmered 10 more minutes before adding the chard. The result was very satisfying. Definitely needed salt at the end. Didn't have any preserved lemon on hand, which would have added additional depth. Looking forward to trying it today after the flavors had a chance to meld overnight.

It's very easy to make your own preserved lemons—and they're an easy way to add a bit of zip to many dishes. The original Paula Wolfort recipe is here on NYTimesCooking.

This was outstanding cooked exactly as recipe was written. My guests were blown away, and this will become a standard for cold winter nights. Hint: cook the day before up to step 4. The flavors meld, the sauce thickens, and the chard leaves, preserved lemon, and and apricots taste fresh and zingy. C'mon folks, preserved lemons are easy to make , last forever in the fridge, and have a thousand uses.

So in the comments of that recipe it said that the beans didn’t cook. So I cooked the chick peas totally by themselves before anything else. I didn’t use a turnip or cilantro. I did use a small butternut squash that i cubed and oven roasted before hand.In the recipe it says your cooking the chick peas by covering in water. But I already did that. But the stew really needed the fluid so I used veggie broth (1 qt) and a can of stew tomatoes.The preserved lemon was the acid that balanced

So yummy and healthy! I made this in the instant pot. I cooked the beans alone for 13 mins at high pressure. Then took them out and proceeded with the recipe from the beginning. Once sautéing was done, I added the chickpeas back in and cooked everything on high pressure for 3 minutes. I think I could have shaved 1-2 minutes off each cook time to keep a little bit of bite in the beans/veggies. I added the apricots, preserved lemon, and chard afterwards on sauté mode.

Excellent recipe, no need to do anything radical to it. Three tips: 1) Allow a lot--really a lot--of time for chopping/prepping before you can start cooking. 2) As others have noted, be much more generous with the spices than the recipe calls for. 3) Preserved lemon paste/puree works well in step 4. Re: softness of the chickpeas: when I made this most recently, I used Rancho Gordo black chickpeas, soaked for 7-8 hours during the day; they were soft enough to eat by 2-hour mark of Step 3.

So yummy! I didn't have preserved lemon or apricots so justed added dried currants - still amazing. I used 2 cans of chick peas. I made roughly 3/4 of the recipe and still had 2 full quart jars of leftovers after feeding 2 of us.

I used smoked paprika because it is all I could find -- Don't do this! It tastes awful. Tried to rectify by upping the apricots and lemon, but it did not help enough. Ugh.

i cook alot of beans, i no longer soak them but just cook them in the instant pot with three times water to beans and a tsp salt.. i cook for 45 minutes, always, then rinse them and use in whatever recipe as is on the stove or baked in dishes. i just put yhe beans in the instant pot in the early day and finish the dish in yhe evening. the tsp salt tenderizes the peels of the beans. Rinsing helps alot making yhem more digestible..

Delicious! This stew has become a regular at our house so we've tried a number of variations. We prefer the 1x over the 2x spices version, though both are fine. And we prefer adding whole dried apricots 30 min prior to serving (they are delicious after a bit of plumping) rather than diced dried apricots near the very end.

Excellent. The main change I made was to use store-bought low-sodium vegetable broth instead of water. I also doubled the paprika and the cumin, and increased the turmeric by 50%. Like some others, I could not find preserved lemons, so I added juice of half a lemon at the end, and used golden raisins instead of apricots. A pound of dried chickpeas yields an absurd amount once soaked, so I ended up using about 3/4 of them. I will start with 12 oz. of dried chickpeas next time.

Absolutely delicious. I added some crumbled merguez in the first step as I had some in the fridge, but it would be delicious without. And subbed kale for chard as the grocery was out of chard — the chard would probably add a bit more sweetness but the kale worked just fine. So well-spiced, hearty and tasty. Will definitely make again.

Canned chickpeas vs dried worked great for me on this and saved me an overnight soak + lots of summer time! Also lemon zest in place of preserved lemon worked fine as well.

I had cooked a pound of chickpeas al dente beforehand (for other recipes) and added them at step 3, which shortened the simmer time to about 30 minutes.I hadn't made preserved lemons and couldn't find any at the store, so I squeezed the juice of an entire lemon into the soup at the very end. Will try with preserved lemons next time, but it was delicious using this shortcut anyway!

I’ve made this recipe a few times; what I’ve learned is this one is best done slowly and intentionally. I double the veggies, increase all the spices except turmeric by .25, decrease the salt by 1tbs (or more if making your own preserved lemon), add an extra tbs of tomato paste, and add 2 15oz cans of rinsed chickpeas. I don’t rush the simmering time as the longer it simmers the better the spices meld. Definitely don’t skip the preserved lemon. Be patient with this one, it’s worth it!

I subbed celery for the fennel and dried cranberries for the apricots. I used 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and 1 full tsp cumin. I sampled the stew before and after adding the chard leaves/preserved lemon/cranberries and found that the chard leaves added a bitter element I didn't love. Next time I will use spinach instead and will double the preserved lemon!

Parsnip is a nice sub for turnip

Doubled the spices, perfect for us, but it's beautiful at any level.