Pasta e ceci os pasta with chickpeas is a very popular dish throughout Italy and there are innumerable ways to prepare it. First of all I used Garofalo" lumachine or little snails shaped pasta aquality pasta from a very good source, then I prepared a vegetarian sauce usung leeks, and garlic along with a little frest Cayenne pepper. One half of the pease were preed and then added to ones coking in the pan. Finally I added the pasta and cooked everything together. The result was a very tasty and protein rich dish of real comfort food.