A chickpea soluble fraction enriched with nutritional components and a method of producing same are provided. The method producing a chickpea preparation enriched with nutritional components includes mechanically disrupting chickpea seeds to produce a chickpea suspension and enzymatically treating said chickpea suspension with one or more of: a protease, an amylase and a phytase. The method for includes isolating a soluble fraction from said chickpea suspension thereby producing the chickpea preparation enriched with nutritional components.
