Chickpea Recipes - Garbanzo Beans Recipes

Chana Recipes - Chickpea curry

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 - Garbanzo beans are called Kabuli chana in Indian language and are used to make chickpea curry (chana masala/ chole), fried chickpeas, chickpea salad etc.

Split Brown chickpeas (Bengal gram or Chana dal in Indian languages) 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.

Chick pea flour 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 for babies as well as grown ups.

Chickpea flour 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
• How to skin chickpeas - Instructions for Removing chickpea skins
• Chickpea Curry - A yummy curry
• Fried Chickpeas - A healthy snack.
• Cabbage Fry - A cabbage and chickpea dish.

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