Chick peas

[Vince G]

Anyone grown or growing these ?

Thought I'd try a row in my legume plot at the lottie. Very attractive little plants getting up towards knee-high now. Been harvesting noral peas for some time now - any idea when these are ready? No sign of any flowers yet....

[Feral007]

And please say what and how you do things with them. I've put canned chick peas in a vege curry and it was great. I bought a huge bag of dried ones. Tried soaking them in warm water o/night but they are still quite tough little beggars. What am I doing wrong. I just bought a can of them in self defence!
I had been planning to plant some this next season until the dried ones.

[zazen999]

Chick peas need a lot of boiling after soaking. Boil til you can squish one with a fork easily.

Vince, they also need decent weather and a long season so might not deliver for you this year.

[Llamas]

I heard somewhere that the return is also not so amazing. Still, I love them and would grow them anyway just so see what they were like fresh!

[Vince G]

Chick peas need a lot of boiling after soaking. Boil til you can squish one with a fork easily.

Vince, they also need decent weather and a long season so might not deliver for you this year.

I hear they're really good cooked fresh and green Zaz, so that's how I was planning to eat them rather than drying them for the winter (if I get any) got borlotti for that purpose.

If you think about the cultures where chick peas are widely eaten it must be true they thrive in hot dry conditions - I bought them with that in mind in March, having had a hosepipe ban announced in my area. Was trying to think of things that wouldn't require so many trips to the tap with the watering can.

Never know, we might get a warm spell soon to enoucrage them.........then again Elvis might land a UFO on the Loch Ness Monster!!

[Feral007]

Oh well I'll give them a try if they do hot and dry cos we'll 'prbably' have that as well as cold.

I've soaked my dried chick peas overnight and then cooked them in the slowcooker in vege curries and such. If they need more than most of the day in the slow cooker after soaking overnight then they are not power efficient for me. Maybe I just ended up with a Very Dry Chickpea are they like wine? Dry...Very Dry......Too Dry?

[Two_Sheds]

I've soaked my dried chick peas overnight and then cooked them in the slowcooker ... If they need more than most of the day in the slow cooker ... they are not power efficient for me.

I don't have any problems with them, but then I don't use a slowcooker. I soak them overnight, then simmer for 45-60 mins.
If you do a whole pack at once, then freeze into individual portions, it's really economical.


http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...peas_9869.html

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[marchogaeth]

Oh well I'll give them a try if they do hot and dry cos we'll 'prbably' have that as well as cold.

I've soaked my dried chick peas overnight and then cooked them in the slowcooker in vege curries and such. If they need more than most of the day in the slow cooker after soaking overnight then they are not power efficient for me. Maybe I just ended up with a Very Dry Chickpea are they like wine? Dry...Very Dry......Too Dry?

I think they need the "boiling process" to actually go soft - which you don't get in a slow cooker. You might have to give them half an hour's boil and then you could finish them in the slow cooker.

[Katog]

look at this
http://www.sowingnewseeds.org.uk/pdf...ick%20peas.pdf