When two comfort foods come together in a fun and delicious twist you get BBQ Chickpea Pasta! This wholesome, flavor-packed pasta dish really delivers a burst of barbecue deliciousness with cozy pasta goodness. It’s fast, it’s easy, and the kids will love it. It’s everything a great skillet dish should be and so much more! The best part is it can be whipped up in just about 20 minutes and sure to satisfy those BBQ cravings, making it this week’s awesome Whip It Up Wednesday recipe.
Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, no highly processed ingredients, and gluten free.
Hi there, Ameera here!
This week’s Whip It Up Wednesday is our BBQ Chickpea Pasta. Tender pasta and hearty chickpeas covered with a delicious bbq sauce that is bursting with tasty flavors. This dish is savory, sweet, and oh-so-satisfying. When you need something fast and easy on the table, look no further, we got you covered!
Whip it up Wednesday
As you already know, every Wednesday, we feature a quick and easy recipe that can be “whipped up” in 20 minutes or less. This recipe can be made in about 20 minutes which really helps speed things up in the kitchen.
Freak Out!
We fell in love with this dish at the first bite, it is completely comforting with all those delicious BBQ sauce flavors and comforting pasta goodness.
But, we have to share with you that Dad was totally freaked out by this dish. He simply could NOT wrap his brain around a barbecue pasta. He kept saying that this dish was blasphemous, spoken like a true Italian. He did enjoy it though, but he wasn’t about to concede that he gave it his blessing no matter how good it tasted. He wanted to be sure that our Readers knew that he simply could not give his blessing on this dish. So dramatic! LOL
He’s a fairly good sport about taste-testing ALL our recipes and providing excellent feedback, but in all the years that we have been making WFPB recipes, this dish nearly broke him. HAH!!! Mom and I both LOVED this dish, but Dad simply didn’t get it and that’s ok. It may not be for everyone.
Mindset
Our advice on this recipe is that you have to go into it prepared for what it is. Aaaaaand it is indeed a BBQ pasta dish. It’s sweet and savory at the same time just like a great BBQ sauce.
In other words, it will pretty much taste like your favorite BBQ sauce, but mellowed down a bit. Mom and I thought it was quite tasty and ate it right up!
Helpful tip: Be sure to pick a BBQ sauce that you enjoy as that is the base of the sauce. This seems straight-forward, but still worth mentioning.
We hope you give this deliciousness a try. It is awesome!
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Quick & Easy Pasta Dishes:
- Vegan Buffalo Mac and Peas
- Thai Curry Chickpea Noodle Soup
- Creamy Garlic Pasta
- Tex-Mex Pasta Salad
- Pasta alla Napolitana
- Fast and Easy Sesame Noodles
- Vegan Pickle Macaroni Salad
Products Used:
- Ceramic/enamel lined Dutch oven, deep skillet, or similar large stock pot.
- Stock pot to boil pasta
Nutritional information not included due to largely dependent upon the BBQ sauce that an individual selects to make this dish. Our Sweet and Smokey BBQ Sauce is WFPB, oil-free and low-fat (0.2g).
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BBQ Chickpea Pasta
- Prep Time: 5 Minutes
- Cook Time: 15 Minutes
- Total Time: 20 Minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop
Description
Comforting, flavorful, and easy, this 20-minute BBQ Chickpea Pasta is brimming with wholesome goodness and barbecue deliciousness. Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, gluten free, no highly processed ingredients.
Ingredients
Base Ingredients:
- 1 cup yellow onions, fine dice
- 2 Tablespoon minced garlic
- ½ cup vegetable broth *
- ½ cup water (or broth)
- 1 – [ 14 oz. can ] petite diced tomatoes
- ¼ cup + 1 Tablespoon BBQ sauce
- 3 Tablespoons nutritional yeast
Spice/Herb Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 Tablespoons dried minced onion flakes
- ½ teaspoon sea salt (+/-) *
- Pinch black pepper (+/-)
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
Other Ingredients:
- 1 – [ 15.5 oz. can ] chickpeas, drained and rinsed *
- 9 oz. GF fusilli pasta (or pasta of choice)
Optional Toppings:
- Nutritional yeast
- Freshly chopped parsley
Instructions
- Fill a large stock pot full of water. Add some sea salt to the water. Bring the water to a boil then add the pasta. Stir occasionally to prevent sticking. Boil the pasta until el dente, drain, rinse with cold water to remove any excess starch, shake well, set aside, then transfer the cooked pasta into the sauce in Step 5.
- Place the Spice/Herb Ingredients in a small bowl, mix well, set aside.
- In a large ceramic/enamel lined skillet, Dutch oven, or non-stick skillet, add the diced onions, sauté over medium-high heat for 7 to 9 minutes to soften, then add the finely minced garlic and sauté over medium heat for several minutes.
- Add all the remaining Base Ingredients, then increase the heat to a boil, then immediately lower to a simmer, add the Spice/Herb Mix, stir well to combine. Simmer on low for 4 minutes. Taste test and adjust as needed.
- Next add the chickpeas and cooked pasta, stir well to combine. Simmer on low for 2 minutes. Then remove from the stove and allow to sit undisturbed for 4 minutes to allow the flavors to marry and the pasta to absorb the flavors.
- Serve topped with nutritional yeast and a sprinkle of fresh parsley.
Notes
*Tips for Success: While it is very tempting to use more pasta then 9 oz.; it is important to understand that the more pasta you use, the less sauce will be available for this dish, and it will become dry. We found that 9 oz. is the perfect pasta to sauce ratio for this dish.
*BBQ Sauce: Use your favorite BBQ sauce. We used our Sweet and Smoky BBQ Sauce.
*Vegetable Stock: We use Pacific Organic Low Sodium Vegetable Stock. We love this brand because it is Whole Food Plant Based compliant, as it does not contain MSG, has no oil, and does not contain any highly-processed ingredients.
*Sauce thickness: This sauce is not a thick sauce. After you remove the skillet from the stove and allow it to sit to absorb flavors, it will slightly thicken.
*Sea Salt: Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.
*Serving: 4
*Storage: Refrigerate and use within 5 days.
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