This Gooey Caramel Sauce Has A Secret, Protein-Packed, Blood-Sugar-Balancing Ingredient

It’s no secret that we’re obsessed with chickpeas. We use them for quick and easy dinners and even deep-dish chocolate cookies—but we’ve never seen them like this before. In their new book, The Chickpea Revolution, blogger Heather Lawless and nutrition expert Jen Mulqueen share 85 ways to make the legume the star of your plate, including this ingenious caramel sauce. The chickpeas add a dose of protein and fiber that will help keep your blood sugar stable, making the sauce the perfect treat to put on everything from ice cream to apple slices. As the authors say, “This way you never need to think ‘should I put caramel sauce on this?’ because the answer is yes. Yes, you should.”

Yields 1 cup