Crispy Spiced Roasted Chickpeas

A roasted chickpea is either crisp all the way through or it is a soft chickpea that has been in the oven, and there is very little ground between the two.

Everything that separates the two outcomes happens before the tray goes in: drying the chickpeas, and giving them room.

Dryness is the whole technique. Chickpeas that go into the oven wet steam themselves soft and never crisp, however long they roast.

They are at their best in the first hour out of the oven and soften a little every hour after that.