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Garlicky Smashed Chickpeas With Corn

Chickpea recipes
Photo by Emma Fishman, Food Styling by Frances Boswell

This recipe from chef Abra Berens’s new bean-and-grain-focused cookbook, Grist, employs a technique for lightly crushing, then crisping chickpeas that you can apply to infinite combinations of pulses (think lentils!) and vegetables. Starting with dry chickpeas you cook yourself will earn you a gold star, but using canned will massively cut down on cooking time.

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