Here’s an ode to crispy oven roasted beans and chickpeas. If you take pretty much any cooked pulse, toss it in flavours, and bake it, you can make them into crunchy little flavour nuggets to sprinkle on salads, in wraps, eat straight up, put in idk your breakfast cereal or whatever. I’m not your dad, you can decide. It’s a great trick and I don’t hear enough about people doing it. Did you know it also works with quinoa, giving it a light crispiness almost like puffed rice?

Sample recipe off the top of my head:

• 1 cup cooked black beans
• ~1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 2 tsp granulated onion

Toss together until well coated.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Spread beans out on parchment paper.
Bake for 45 minutes at 400f or until beans have split open like teeny baked potatoes. give em more time to make them crunchier.

Anyone else addicted to these? My wife thinks I’m going a bit overboard when I mix them into refries but yo dawg, we heard you like beans so…