Chickpeas with Fresh Tomatoes

This is an Italian recipes simply prepared with the legumes chickpeas and fresh tomatoes. I liked a lot all kind of legumes from beans, lens, chicklings and in particular chickpeas. With chickpeas you can prepare a lot of delicious Italian recipes: like soup of chickpeas, pasta and chickpeas, farinata. Here I prepared chickpeas with fresh tomatoes. You can serve this Italian recipe as a main course or as a side dish with cheese or meat. The preparation of chickpeas with fresh tomatoes is very simple you have just to remember the day before to prepare it to place them in a bowl cover with water and the following step are very easy. Cook chickpeas in the pressure cooker, when they are ready transfer them in a pan with onion and tomatoes and the Italian recipe is ready.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
1 Onion
300g or 2 cup of Dry Chick Peas
5 – 6 Tomatoes (the type that you prefer)
3 Spoon of extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Black Pepper

PREPARATION TIME: the chickpeas should stay almost 12-14 hour in water

COOKING TIME: 1 hour

WINE: Nardò Rosso Doc (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
The day before the preparation of this delicious Italian recipes that has as main ingredients the chickpeas you should remember to place the chick peas in a bowl and cover them with water.



Leave the chickpeas for almost 12-14 hour in water and then cooked them by using the pressure cooker. I usually cook 300 g of chickpeas with 500 ml of not salted water for 40-50 minutes according to your taste. I usually prefer firmer chickpeas so I cook them for 40 minutes. While the chickpeas cook, chop the onion and cut the fresh tomatoes in small pieces.



When the chickpeas are almost cooked, preheat the extra virgin olive oil in a pan, add the onion and the tomatoes and let them brown.



Add the chickpeas, sauté them for 5 minutes.
Mix all together, sprinkle with salt and pepper and let them cook for other 10-15 minute in order to mix well the taste of chickpeas with that of fresh tomatoes.



Serve chickpeas warm.
BUON APPETITO!