The simple chickpea is as healthful as it is flavorful. With a fuzzy, pale green pod, the pea inside is kept fresh and edible straight out of the shell or cooked in a variety of wonderful ways. Chickpeas can be steamed, roasted, cooked into stews, pureed into dips, ground into a flour, sprouted and eaten [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chickpeas’
Fresh Green Chickpeas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chickpeas, garbanzo beans, raw beans, raw chickpeas on September 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Middle Eastern Felafel, My Style
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beans, chickpeas, dinner, felafel, garbanzo beans, middle eastern, vegetarian on July 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Recently, several of my peers highlighted an old favorite legume, the chickpea—or garbanzo bean. Dorine highlighted the raw chickpea in this article, Fresh Chickpeas. Shortly thereafter, Richard Frisbie wrote about techniques for cooking our little bean here, Foodbites. Sonia Martinez followed up with a rousing article about cooking from scratch, Cooking from [...]



