Description
Make roasted chickpea snacks and immediately turn the water from the beans into a fluffy and chocolatey vegan dessert!
Ingredients
Chocolate Mousse:
- Liquid from 1.5 cans of chickpeas. Unsalted or low salt.
- ¼ tsp cream of tartar
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 oz good 65-80% vegan chocolate. Melted.
- ½ tbsp. coconut oil
Quick instructions: Melt chocolate and mix with coconut oil. Set aside to cool. Whip the cream of tartar and aquafaba for 8-10 minutes, add sugar slowly. Fold the cooled chocolate/coconut oil mix into the aquafaba fluff. Let set overnight in the refrigerator. See below for more detailed step-by-step instructions and how to incorporate with the roasted chickpea recipe
Roasted Chickpeas (makes one batch of savory and one batch of sweet):
- 2 cans of chickpeas
- Olive oil
- 4 oz good 65-80% chocolate. Melted.
- Garlic salt and spices. To taste.
Quick instructions: Wash the chickpeas and pat them dry. Spread on a cookie sheet. Cook at 400 degrees for 60-75 minutes until crispy. Cover in chocolate or sprinkle with olive oil and savory spices to taste. See below for more detailed step-by-step instructions and how to incorporate with the chocolate mousse recipe.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Strain the chickpeas and save the liquid.
- Wash the chickpeas, coat in oil and spread thin on a cookie sheet. Put them in the oven for about an hour.
- While the chickpeas are roasting, melt 4 oz. of vegan chocolate. You’ll use this for both recipes. I add some coconut oil so it will melt smoothly but still harden at room temperature.
- Pour the liquid from one and half cans into a bowl. The other liquid can go in an airtight container for up to a week. You can also freeze it.
- Add ¼ tsp cream of tartar and whip. Don’t be concerned if it doesn’t happen right away. On high speed, it took me about 9 minutes to get to stiff peaks. You can’t over whip aquafaba, so whip it up and whip it good!
- After you get very stiff peaks, add ½ cup sugar a little at a time and keep whipping. If you don’t put enough sugar, the aquafaba may go flat; the sugar and the cream of tartar provide some stability.
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Let the chocolate cool. If you put the chocolate in too hot or too quickly, it will clump up in the room-temperature whip and fall to the bottom.
- Gently fold in the chocolate with a spatula a few tablespoons at a time. I drizzled and then folded.
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Put the mousse into containers and into the fridge for at least 2 hours. YUM!Remove the roasting chickpeas from the oven once they’re crispy (about 60 – 75 minutes).
- Pour the remaining chocolate onto parchment paper and roll half of the crispy chickpeas in it. Let harden.
- Take the remaining roasted chickpeas and stir with savory spices and a little olive oil.
- Enjoy them all!