chickpeas and other CSA surprises.

[2ndhandsunshine]

Recently, I received some garbanzo beans in my CSA box (we signed up for a weekly one last month), and after stripping the pods and shelling the seeds, what seemed like a large bundle of produce has now been reduced to about half a cup of of chickpeas. Now I've never worked with chickpeas (a.k.a garbanzo beans) before in any form, and while I've

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[ltdead]

I'm assuming you mean the fresh chickpeas, since you mention shucking them.

I've roasted them both shucked and unshucked. You can put them on a jelly roll pan with a little olive oil and salt. Dunno what temp to use - I was roasting them on the BBQ. Once they're softened up a bit, you can either eat them as is, or grind them up with more olive oil, tahini, garlic, etc to fresh garbanzo hummus - it comes out a beautiful bright green color and looks just like guacamole! It's really good.

[2ndhandsunshine]

I would guess they're fresh since I got them with the twigs and leaves still attached, but when I Google "fresh chickpeas", the pictures are mostly green and mine are mostly yellow, dry, and hard. (Though a couple are still sort of soft and green.) Which is part of the reason for my confusion-- if I wanted to roast them, should I soak them a bit to get softer? Or will that only make them mushy? And if I don't, will they come out rock hard?

[noveldevice]

Ahhh. You got chickpeas that were left to dry in the pod. Soak them and try one and if they're still kind of hard, cook them up.

[angellic_devil]

No help on the chickpeas but WOW! that certainly is a gourmet CSA box. We're in the middle of winter with our CSA (Australia) so I've been getting cabbage and potatoes and pumpkin and kale for weeks on end. I can't wait for some fresh spring veggies!

[noveldevice]

Chickpeas: you'll need to soak them overnight like you would dried ones but at that point they'll basically act like canned chickpeas. You might add a teense of baking soda to the soak water just to soften them up a bit. And then change the water of course. :) For a lot of uses you'll then cook them anyway

[a_boleyn]

One of my favourite soup recipes is made using chickpeas. It can be vegan if you use vegetable stock. The recipe follows. Chickpea curry is very tasty

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