Chickpeas 500 g COUNTRY LIFE

Chickpeas are sometimes called Roman peas. Chickpeas are legumes with a delicate nutty flavour and a slightly creamy consistency. You can use chickpea as a side dish or as a basis of spreads or soups. More

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Price: 2,05 €  / 0,41 € za 100 g

  • Vegan
  • Made of gluten free ingredients
  • With no added sugar

Description, composition and nutritional values

Description

Use:

  • Porridge - you can modify your classic pea porridge recipe by replacing pea with chickpea
  • Soup - by blending chickpea and vegetable broth, you will get a delicious cream soup, which can be smoothened by a cream alternative, do not be afraid to put whole chickpeas even to classic vegetable or mushroom soups
  • Rissoles - blend legumes, add spices, herbs, an egg and flour, form shapes of rissoles and fry from both sides
  • Sauces - chickpeas taste great in sauce dishes as a meat substitute
  • Thickening - blended chickpea will thicken your soup and sauces
  • Salads - cooked and cooled chickpea can make a tasty ingredient of your salad
  • Roasting - roast chickpeas in the oil until crunchy (10-20 minutes), add seasoning while cooking, ideal as a dainty or instead of chips

It is necessary to pre-soak chickpea for at least four hours, ideally up to eight hours. According to the pre- soaking time, chickpea is then cooked for 2-3 hours. In a pressure cooker, chickpea is prepared in 40 minutes. Soak chickpea in salty water, because it will get soft more quickly. Salt improves its taste and cooking evenness. After cooking, you can use the water to whisk it into solid snow as you do it with egg whites. The obtained snow can then be used for baking or for vegan option of meringues.

Chickpeas are obtained from a plant called Cicer arietinum. It was domesticated 7,000 years ago in the area around Turkey and Syria. Today it is mainly grown and used in India. The fruit of the plant is a pod with up to ten spherical seeds of yellowish colour. It is the third most widely grown legume in the world just right after pea and common bean.

Composition

Chickpea. May contain traces of gluten.

Storage

Store at temperatures up to 25 ° C and relative humidity up to 70%.

  • Legislative classification Legumes – chickpea.
  • Country of origin Kazakhstan

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Nutritional data for 100 g

energy value 1 335 kJ / 320 kcal
Fats: 5,4 g
from that saturated fatty acids: 1,0 g
Carbohydrates: 49,6 g
from that sugars: 11,0 g
Fiber: 10,7 g
Proteins: 21,3 g
Salt: 0,1 g

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