A fragrant chickpea tagine captures the essence of a Moroccan classic

Chickpeas get the tagine treatment with a Moroccan-style combination of warming, aromatic and briny flavours from ginger, saffron, cinnamon, preserved lemons, olives and more.

The subtitle of Steve Sando’s latest cookbook is “100 Recipes for Cooking with All Kinds of Beans.” And this is no understatement: With his wildly popular company, Rancho Gordo, Sando has made heirloom bean varieties so popular that his quarterly membership-club shipments go out to tens of thousands of customers – and tens of thousands more are on the waiting list.