The art of Italian cooking: pasta salad with tomatoes and chickpeas

Hi, this is the fifty seventh post about the art of cooking Italian pasta.

Today’s post is dedicated to an healthy, easy-to-do, quick and cheap pasta salad recipe: pasta salad with tomatoes and chickpeas.

Cold pasta combined with tomatoes and chickpeas

Everyone will love it.

Make it for your daily menu using canned chickpeas or for an important event using dried chickpeas for a better taste.

This pasta salad is made according to the Mediterranean diet that suggests to combine pasta, especially wholemeal pasta, with pulses for eating healthy.

One of its ingredients is tomato. How do you peel tomatoes?

Everyone knows there are two techniques to peel them. Somebody plunges them in boiling water for a minute, immediately after in very cold water or water with ice. All that to peel them easily. It isn’t the right way according to our opinion. In fact you may lose important nutritional properties and their flesh becomes watery and too soft. Carlo and I prefer to peel them raw. Besides it’s quicker. Eventually you can press the tomato pieces lightly with a fork directly in the bowl.

Well. Are you interested in all our entries about Italian pasta dishes? Read the complete list on this page

Greetings from Italy

Carlo & Loretta