Hummus

These picks are pretty close to the real thing you can get at a restaurant, according to the pros.
Americans are a little confused about whether they should be eating these.
Pasta and chickpeas may seem unlikely bowl-mates, but the two are combined in recipes from several regions of Italy. If you love pasta e fagioli (beans), it isn't much of a leap to pasta e ceci, as chickpeas are called in Italian.