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Chickpea Recipes

Chickpea Recipes are in demand as chickpeas are loved by all as they are comfort food. Chickpeas are used in many recipes for lunch, dinner and breakfast. They are wonderful as snack recipes too.

The types of chick pea are, black, brown, white, green. These are whole chickpeas before removing their husk.

White chickpeas are called Kabuli chana in Indian language and are used to make chickpeacurry (chana masala/ chole), friedchickpeas, chickpea salad etc.

Split Brown chickpeas (Bengal gram or Chana in Indian language) are used to make curries, added to vegetables such as Cabbage Fry and rice recipes, salads, curries.

Chick pea flour , called Besan or gram flour is used to make many dishes, mainly snacks. It is used as a thickener for soups, curries. It is also used to make dhokla, vatli dal, ghugari with whole and split chickpeas, pakoda, aloo bonda, pancake - instant dosa, sev and many more sweets such as Besan ladoo, puran poli, vadi, rava besan vadi etc.

Chickpea flour is useful for external use on the skin too apart from being a wonderful food ingredient.

Chickpea flour is a good skin cleanser so it is used as a body scrub powder forbabies as well as grown ups. It is mixed with milk/cream and used at bath time. It cleans and softens the skin but does not remove the necessary oils.

Roasted chickpeas called bhuna chana/dalia(hindi),puthane(marathi), hurigadale(kannada), pottukadale(tamil) are added to savory items such as chivda, mixture. used as snack the roasted chick peas flour is also used as a thickener.

What you can do with Chickpeas: Chickpea Recipes How to cook chickpeas- Simple instructions Howto skin chickpeas - Instructions for Removing chickpea skins ChickpeaCurry - A yummy curry FriedChickpeas - A healthy snack.CabbageFry - A cabbage and chickpea dish.




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How to skin chickpeas, removing chickpea skins

How to skin chickpeas - Removing Chickpea skin I got a question through my contact form asking How to skin chickpeas?

Here is the question I got and my answer below that.

The question:

Thank you for your simple, thorough instructions regarding howto cook chickpeas.

I have a question that I'm hoping you will be able to answer. I am(obviously) new to chickpeas and love them. However, they seem to have a "skin" or "hull" on them. Does that need to be removed? If so, is there a quicker way to remove them than to peel each off individually?

Thank you so much for your website.

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My answer:

Method for removing chickpea skin :

I love chickpeas and cook them often. I always use them along with the skin. When the chickpeas are cooked soft, the skin is soft too. I have never found the need to remove theskin.

But if you like, you may remove chickpea skin in the following way. You will find this as a quick method to remove skin from the chickpeas compared to peeling each one individually.

After your chickpeas are almost cooked (either in the pot on the stove top or in pressure cooker), take the pot off the heat and add a few glasses of cold water to it.

The skins will crack and loosen and float on the top. Remove them with a slotted spoon. Stir the chickpeas and more loosened skins will come to the top. Most of the skin can beremoved in this way.

If a lot of skin still remains, put your hand in the pot (it will be cold because of the cold water) and take a fistful chickpeas at a time and rub them lightly with your fingers. (Do not use any pressure while rubbing. You will get mashed chickpeas).

Now the remaining skins should also come off. Remove them with a slotted spoon. If you want to cook your chickpeas further (for chickpea curry or soup) to soften them more, you can do that now by boiling them a little longer.

Add the chickpeas onto a colander if you want to remove the excess water (if you don't need water for your recipe). If you want to dry them some more, spread the chickpeas on a cloth or a towel and allow drying a little under a fan or leaving them on a plate in the fridge.Use the skinned chickpeas as you want.

Hope this answers your question: How to skin chickpeas?

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