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make salad with chick peas, thinly slice red onions, diced celery, salt/pepper and oil & vinegar. You could add canned tuna or chicken to it. Also add crumbled feta cheese
These were really some great ideas, I’m going to try everything suggested. I appreciate everyone’s creativity, I was stumped. It never occurred to me to roast them! Thanks, everyone!
When I make ground beef(or any meat) I stretch it out by adding beans and or tofu as well as vegetables, onion, add curry or herbs and tomato. You can make soup if you add broth or curry or spaghetti. It lessens the amount of meat you eat, provides fiber, protein and is lighter, but filling.
In addition to roasting them (I like to with red curry paste), you can also put some on salads, into pasta salads, into pasta recipe's, etc. They make a nice textured variety in a lot of standard recipes.
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They go into that four bean salad, which I use as a topper for green salad.
I took your idea and made some last night, with green beans, Pintos, Kidneys, Garbanzos and red onion. I tasted it and it was great but it should be better today after sitting in the fridge marinating all night.
I wanted to add wax beans and make it 5 bean but Safeway didn't have them.
I just remembered that a friend adds mashed/chopped (in the food processor) chickpeas when she makes chocolate chip or butterscotch chip cookies to add fiber and nutrients since her kids are vegetable-averse. I've eaten her cookies made with added chickpeas, and they are delicious. No idea how much to add or whether she adjusts the recipe to accommodate the addition of the chickpeas.
I was given a case of them. I know I can make hummus, but I’m kind of over it for awhile. The only other thing I have used them for is an addition on a tossed green salad.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Add them to salads, tuna salad, soups, any E Indian food.
This week, I added some to a small Butter Chicken dish. I used Tasty Bite Butter Chicken sauce (Amazon). Sauted some chicken breast cubes in some water, added the sauce and a bit more water, a bit of coconut milk, the chickpeas, some spinach that was on the cusp of not being edible.
Our favorite dish to make with garbanzo beans is called chana. It's very easy, particularly the way we make it, although I'm sure if I were from India I would question the authenticity of this recipe.
1/2 onion, sliced--saute in butter.
Add 1 can of tomato sauce and one can of chickpeas, drained.
Add curry powder to taste. I think I use about a teaspoon, but I really do taste it to make sure it's not too spicy for my wife.
Serve over rice.
It barely takes half an hour and it's very tasty.
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