Air Fryer Sesame Garlic Garbanzos

Judith Hannemann — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:00:58 +0000

Garlic sesame garbanzos are a quick air fryer snack.

Yummy Snack

If you’re looking for a great-tasting snack (that just may be good for you too), then look no further than these air fryer sesame garlic garbanzos.

Admittedly, I have a love of garbanzo beans (also known as chick peas) since they’re hearty and full of flavor. I’ll just eat them straight from the can too. But roasting them gives them a real flavor depth as roasting will do with most foods.

There’s many different ways to flavor them. One of the most popular flavors involves chili powder and a hint of heat. As a result, there’s many ways to enjoy these wonderful beans.

Rotating Basket Is Perfect

If you have an oven-style air fryer, this is where that rotating basket you use with the rotisserie function is perfect. Since it spins, there’s no necessity to shake the garbanzos frequently. It’s all automatic.

The older basket-style fryers necessitate a few shakes while you’re cooking the beans. I shook them about 3 times during the cooking process. However, you can decide how often you want to do it, but I’d recommend doing that at least twice during the cook time.

Drying The Beans

The beans should be relatively dry before you air fry them. The more moisture that’s in them, the longer they’re going to take to cook.

I always rinse them really well by placing them in a colander and doing it under running water. That gets that syrupy gunk from the can off of them.

Then place them on several thicknesses of paper towels and top with another several thicknesses of towels. Then just gently roll them around. This should be sufficient. And if you rinse out those paper towels and allow them to dry, you can use them again for other purposes–I do because, well, I’m pretty thrifty (OK cheap).

The Recipe

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