{"id":620560,"date":"2023-03-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/this-alfredo-ish-sauce-transforms-canned-chickpeas\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T16:00:00","slug":"this-alfredo-ish-sauce-transforms-canned-chickpeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/this-alfredo-ish-sauce-transforms-canned-chickpeas\/","title":{"rendered":"This Alfredo-ish Sauce Transforms Canned Chickpeas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To food editor Shilpa Uskokovic, when it comes to home cooking, cheap is the greatest compliment. Each month, in<\/em>\u00a0What a Steal<\/em><\/a>, she\u2019s sharing a highly craveable recipe\u2014and showing us how to save some $$$ along the way.<\/em><\/p>\n

To whoever first put chickpeas in a can, blessings be upon you. Cooks everywhere are indebted until the end of time. Here at Bon App\u00e9tit, we love the little magic legume so much, we already have\u00a0dozens of recipes<\/a> featuring it. But I couldn\u2019t resist one more: this cheap, cheerful cheesy skillet of chickpeas and broccoli swimming in an Alfredo-ish sauce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For less than the price of a chicken breast, I now have myself a filling and hefty protein source that feeds four and is also full of\u00a0fiber<\/a>\u2014a thing I have become obsessed with lately. Be sure to source regular canned chickpeas and none of that low-sodium bosh. An underseasoned chickpea is a woeful thing and, unless the flavor is locked in from the start, the final dish will never taste quite right. If you\u2019re on a low-sodium diet, get the regular chickpeas still and cut back on the salt elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Depending on where in the world you are, real Alfredo sauce is either a deviously simple mix of butter and parm, or a devilishly indulgent take pumped full of heavy cream. My version is inspired by both and true to neither.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It starts with a cheap base of onions, garlic, and flour. A slab of cream cheese delivers handsomely on the creamy front because who has the commitment for a carton of heavy cream? An open box will remind you loudly, every time you open the fridge, that it\u2019s still half full and moving past its prime. Cream cheese, though? Cream cheese is patient, chilling in its shiny wrapper for months. And it\u2019s often on sale at my local store. Of course, it can\u2019t replace heavy cream in every situation, but for most savory sauces, cream cheese soars. In this one-pan dinner, it instantly enriches the sauce. To finish, spoonfuls of miso and\u00a0bouillon paste<\/a>\u00a0deposit spades of concentrated flavor. With no expensive meat, both of these ingredients bring welcome depth.<\/p>\n

Frozen<\/a> broccoli is here to steal the title for best supporting actor. I love\u00a0frozen produce<\/a>. The convenience! The economy! The often superior quality! (Open a bag of frozen strawberries and tell me they\u2019re not better than the fresh abominations slowly growing mold in their clamshells.) After a few rounds of testing, I favor the broccoli from the Cascadian Farms brand. They\u2019re precut into just the right size and thaw quickly in the sauce without losing their vibrancy. Frozen broccoli particularly large? Give it a rough chop (still frozen) so it defrosts fast with no risk of overcooking.<\/p>\n

To finish, a final stir of Parmesan, not a lot. Just enough to assert its piquancy and hint at the dish\u2019s roots. If another sharp cheese like Grana Padano or Pecorino Romano is cheaper at the store, swap it in freely. Alfredo might come for you, but the chickpeas won\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n

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Canned chickpeas and frozen broccoli keep this one-skillet dinner fast and thrifty, while cream cheese delivers on the creamy Alfredo front.<\/p>\n

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To food editor Shilpa Uskokovic, when it comes to home cooking, cheap is the greatest compliment. Each month, in\u00a0What a Steal, she\u2019s sharing a highly craveable recipe\u2014and showing us how to save some $$$ along the way. To whoever first put chickpeas in a can, blessings be upon you. Cooks everywhere are indebted until the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":620561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120593,534,76747],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-620560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alfredo-ish","8":"category-financial","9":"category-sauce"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}