Chickpea flour

[coopertime]

I was planning on making this tonight, but then I noticed it calls for ckickpea flour, which I don't have and can never find anywhere. Would the recipe be catastrophically different if I just used normal flour instead?

Comments

[supercarrot]

chickpea flour kind-of works as an egg replacer.

if you have a blender, you should be able to make it from dried chickpeas. then use a sifter to sift out the larger particles that couldn't get blended.

[kumquatpie]

IAWTC. Incidentally, I live in a pretty metropolitan area and still can't find chickpea flour so I wonder where the hell people get theirs. :X

[ex_ghostwal396]

do you have a whole foods? i get mine there. and i actually found some at publix the other day, which was surprising.

[kumquatpie]

whole foods NEVER has anything I want! I've looked for both chickpea flour and powdered soy milk there recently, and they didn't have either. There have been other stuff too, I just can't remember. Oh, I tried finding farro there too with no success. I only seem to find stuff there if I don't immediately want to use it.

[bree_zy]

it's also called garbanzo bean flour if that helps. mine is made by bob's red mill and you can find their products at basically any whole foods store.

[pearllessoyster]

agreed. i was super confused when i was first looking for chickpea flour and then i found it under garbanzo bean flour. more and more stores are carrying it, so even if you have a "regular" grocery store with a semi-substantial natural foods area, they should have it.

[coopertime]

Thanks for that guide. I used regular flour tonight and it came out really delicious.

[balamuthia]

We tried making tortillas once that called for regular flour, with chickpea flour...it was a disaster!

[themoonisfake]

chickpea flour is AWESOME
so if you ever find it (where i am, it's everywhere)
GET IT
and it gives everything a beautiful yellow glow

[coopertime]

Nice! Besides the glow, does it significantly change the taste/texture of whatever you're using it in?

P.S., I saw you mention that Mt Eerie book/record in your journal...isn't that thing incredible looking? He makes my favorite music ever, but I can't keep up with him...I haven't gotten anything since No Flashlight. I'll have to get that Glow Pt. 2 re-issue eventually, though...