{"id":603,"date":"2015-06-30T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veganlovlie.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/30\/spiced-boiled-brown-chickpea-snack-gram-bouilli-a-mauritian-snack"},"modified":"2019-12-11T02:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:18:52","slug":"spiced-boiled-brown-chickpea-snack-gram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veganlovlie.com\/spiced-boiled-brown-chickpea-snack-gram\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan-fried Spicy Chickpeas Snack – ‘Gram Bouilli’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pan-fried Spicy Chickpeas Snack<\/strong> made with boiled brown \/ black chickpeas, various spices and herbs. This is commonly known as ‘Gram Bouilli<\/em>‘ – a popular Mauritian snack. Delicious high-protein vegan snack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previously featured here, the spicy chickpeas snack recipe, made with brown \/ black chickpeas, is a simply irresistible protein snack for a year round anytime nibble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locally we call this snack “gram bouilli”, ‘gram’<\/i> for the brown chickpeas and ‘bouilli’<\/i> (pronounced bwee<\/i>) literally means boiled. The chickpeas are boiled then sauteed and spiced. I remember the days when I used to buy this snack after school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very often, the sellers would come onto the bus with their basket full of these chickpea snacks, nuts and other nibbles; I would always grab a couple bags of the boiled chickpea ones and munch on the way. They somehow made the bus journeys more pleasant.
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I make this snack very often and since I can no longer tolerate onions and garlic very well, I do not usually include them in my recipe. In this version however (which is a slight variation of the previous recipe<\/a>), I decided to add in the onions since the original recipe calls for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you cannot find brown or black chickpeas, you can still make this with regular chickpeas. But I do recommend you try the black chickpeas version as they have a more roasted, earthy and smoky kind of flavour to them that gives this snack its characteristic taste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can usually find brown \/ black chickpeas in Asian\/Indian stores; I haven’t really seen it in regular grocery stores nor in health stores. And if you are wondering what else you could do with them, I use them in curries<\/a> or just throw them into a tossed salad for a satisfying bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I make this spicy chickpeas snack regularly to entertain our late movie nights binge-watching one series after another on Netflix. Merlin is the current one on our view list. By the way, if you have any recommendations for any shows, drop me a word; I am always curious about what other people are watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here goes the Spicy Chickpeas Snack recipe<\/strong> and video below. You can totally adjust the spices to your liking and use less oil or skip it altogether and use water instead if you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n