Dishes made with chickpea
33 dishes from around the world that list chickpea as a main ingredient.
HummusVegan
🇸🇾 Syria and 5 moreMashed chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon, and garlic, served as a dip or spread
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Lunch
Masala dosaVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaSouth Indian rice-lentil crepe filled with spiced potato
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
DhoklaVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaSteamed, spongy savoury cake from Gujarat made with fermented lentil and rice batter
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Chole bhatureVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaChickpea curry served with deep-fried, puffy bread
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Lablabiلبلابي
🇹🇳 Tunisia and 1 moreTunisian chickpea soup poured over torn bread and topped with bold garnishes
Soup, Breakfast, Lunch
Gofio
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreFinely milled roasted grain flour from the Canary Islands, used in many ways
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Fattehفتّة
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 moreBread layered with yogurt, chickpeas and toppings, served warm across the Arab world
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
MsabbahaVeganمسبحة
🇸🇾 Syria and 1 moreWhole chickpeas in tahini sauce, a runnier cousin of hummus from the Levant
Main dish, Breakfast
Ghugniঘুগনি
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreCurried peas or chickpeas, often served with bread or snacks in eastern India and Nepal
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
ThalipeethVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaA spiced flatbread made with a blend of roasted grains and legumes
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
DoublesVegan
🇹🇹 Trinidad and TobagoCurried chickpeas tucked between two fried flatbreads, served with chutneys
Street food, Breakfast, Lunch
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Hummus: Paul Goyette, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lablabi: Habib M'henni, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Thalipeeth: Dharmadhyaksha, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Masala dosa: Mike Linksvayer, CC BY 2.0, source
- Fatteh: Eaeeae, CC BY 3.0, source
- Doubles: Grueslayer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dhokla: Tarunpant, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Chole bhature: MaharajaMandy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gofio: barraquito, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ghugni: raasiel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Msabbaha: Itzuvit, CC BY-SA 3.0, source