Chickpeas

Product Description

Chickpeas are usually rapidly boiled for *0 minutes, and then simmered for a longer period. Dried chickpeas need a long cooking time (*2 hours) but will easily fall apart when cooked longer. If soaked for ***4 hours before use, cooking time can be shortened by around *0 minutes. Chickpeas can also be pressure cooked, or sous vide cooked at *0 °C (**4 °F).

Hummus is the Arabic word for chickpeas, which are often cooked and ground into a paste and mixed with tahini (sesame seed paste), the blend called hummus bi tahini, or chickpeas are roasted, spiced, and eaten as a snack, such as leblebi. By the end of the *0th century, hummus had become commonplace in American cuisine; by ***0, five percent of Americans consumed hummus on a regular basis,and it was present in *7 percent of American households.