I learned more about hummus in this short video than I have from reading umpteen recipes and watching other videos. Thank you for the clear instructions and explanations. Great stuff.
I am just starting to learn more about preparing dry beans and chickpeas. This video was so helpful, I will use it every time and check out your other posts too. Thanks!!!
Cheers for this educational video, I'm just discovered how much protein chickpeas have along with lentils, they are also cheap to buy in dry form, so I'll be cooking these in many meals. Money is tight now so this video was very helpful. Cheers mate.. I will no longer stare at dry chickpeas and lentils in a bag on a supermarket shelf and wonder what are they all about.. Once again cheers.... Humus is Arabic for chickpeas, I didn't know that as well.
I didn't realise chickpeas could be frozen! Living alone I tend to use tinned but this is great. Well worth the effort to batch cook and freeze. I'm loving your videos.
Great video. It gave me exactly the information I wanted. I had known about cooking chickpeas with baking soda before but have never done this as I was uncertain how much baking soda to add or how long to leave the peas in it before cooking them. Now I will definitely batch-cook chickpeas and freeze them. I have found brown and green chickpeas in my wonderful Asian food shop and have also recently discovered black tahini. Now to make some hummus b-tahini
Thank you for this easy to follow step by step tutorial. I use it every time I’m making chickpeas and they come out perfect. Also great tip about freezing, I thought they would go mushy in the freezer but actually they retain their shape and flavour just fine. Thanks so much!
Incredible! The very best method I have found on chickpea preparation! Made the softest, most delicious chickpeas without the long task of removing the skins by hand.. Cooked these in a pressure cooker and there were hardly any skins left. The ones that remained were completely soft and smoothly blended in with the rest of the chickpeas when making hummus. And so incredibly easy! I doubled the recipe without any problem. Thank you so much for this.... extremely grateful!!
I agree. I have one more year before I become a certified chef & although, I only learned of the power of chickpeas in college 10 years ago. I believe this method produces the softest I have seen thus far!
Middle Eats just released their hummus dip recipe and one thing that stood out to me was their instruction to cook the chickpeas until mush. Curious to see what you advise when you come out with your hummus dip recipe.
This is such a helpful video. I am literally in the last stage (boiling this chick peas). I’m looking forward to tasting them. I love chick peas. When I receive a bag of friend chick peas I was wondering how I would prepare them. Thanks again
Great vid. Thanks. I’m trying to my first home made batch right now. The only thing, when do you remove the outter skin? After the final boil? My peas had skin on them. Not sure if yours did. What’s the best way to remove them once boiled? Thanks again
thank you for your easy step by step procedure of cooking dried chickpeas! it will surely help me to cook them. May I ask how long can we store chickpeas in the freezer?
Thank you so much for the informative video! Now I know why I nearly “died” from bloating when I tried falafel for the first time and been scared to eat them again.
Thanks for this--does anybody know whether the use of baking soda will also help with the digestive issues of other kinds of beans, etc? Would a baking soda bath be good for pinto, black, or lima beans, or black-eyed peas?
I followed this guide while preparing my first hummus ("bi tahini" apparently.) I hope you can add a recipe for that in the future along with ratios (so it's easier to calculate for different serving sizes.) By the way, are there any uses for the soaking water after? I used tap water for the first 3 hour soak and I used distilled water for the overnight soak so I don't want to use too much drinking water only to throw it out later. Tap water has a bad reputation in my country.
@@Doukourenyc The Israeli portion of Palestine IS free. Kindly convince Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniya to make their portions of the former British Mandate free.
If Syria Palestina was defeated long ago (as you wrote), there is no "Palestine", so what is there to free, as you wrote in an earlier comment ? If the Islamists (note Muslims are ok) would free their MINDS (forget about freeing the non-existant "Palestine"), then things would be much better.
Well, those canned foods are pretty much like the "instant" stuffs...all meant to make cooking/eating easy and convenient, particularly for those who have limited time left after all the daily modern world's busyness. 😁
His technique is terrible so dont bother. Just wash them dry than leave them in warm water with salt and a bit of baking soda(optionally) overnight. Make sure they stayd up to 12h. You can wash after a bit than boil again till butter soft / just like regular beans
Usually we just take them out of the freezer the night before to defrost :) if you wanna use the whole, you can boil them a bit to warm them up. If you wanna use them mashed, it's best to cook them very well (beyond aldente), then mash them and freeze them mashed. Then, you would not add water to defrost them ...
Should I peel the skins off of them after they are cooked? I plan to use mine for hummus. First batch I made a few days according to the package directions did not come out well. They were hard and dry and went I went to mash them in my mortar and pestle the skins were pretty distinct.
If you are boiling chickpeas to make a hummus dip, always make sure to boil it a bit extra till the chickpeas become very soft and much easier to mash. If you are using a food processor, you prob don't need to remove the skin but if you are using a mortar and pestle, removing the skin will give you a smoother and silkier texture. Another tip would be to prepare your hummus dip (whether by a food processor or a mortar and pestle) while the chickpeas are still hot as it helps getting a better texture! Try our method for preparing dried chickpeas and let us know how it turns out! That's the method most places in the Levant use. If you also have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask! ☺️🤗
Due to chickpeas irregular shape the weight of a cup will vary from cup to cup but using a displacement measurement a cup is 200 grams. The best thing to do is get a $10 kitchen scale from Amazon but if you don't want to do that just do about 2 and a half to 2 and 3 quarters cups, that will be pretty close
Fyi 500 grams is a little over a pound (1.1 pounds) and in the US, the store sells chickpeas aka garbanzo beans by the pound already in proportioned bags so if a recipe calls for 500 grams, just use the whole bag. This isn’t baking so you’re measurements don’t have to be exact Anyways I’m gonna assume a lot of stores around the world sell bags of chickpeas in 500 gram bags so it’s a 1 bag Beans to 1 TB Salt to 1 TB Baking soda. Now you don’t even need to measure or weight the chickpeas. …If you use a 1/2 bag of beans then it’s 1/2 TB Baking soda and 1/2 TB salt. If your making a big batch and use 2 bags then it’s 2 TB baking Soda and 2TB of Salt.
Chickpeas may have an unpleasant smell when boiling them. This is why we suggest adding a bay leaf or a stick of cinnamon while boiling, just to give them a pleasant aroma.
Am surprised you use baking soda but then don't remove the skins. Won't the skins be half off making for a strange texture? Especially annoying with humus dip that has skins.
I learned more about hummus in this short video than I have from reading umpteen recipes and watching other videos. Thank you for the clear instructions and explanations. Great stuff.
I agree 100%..The Levant!
I have read many videos on how to cook chickpeas and I pick yours as the most simple and practical way to cook. Many thanks.
Glad you liked it :))
I am just starting to learn more about preparing dry beans and chickpeas. This video was so helpful, I will use it every time and check out your other posts too. Thanks!!!
Cheers for this educational video, I'm just discovered how much protein chickpeas have along with lentils, they are also cheap to buy in dry form, so I'll be cooking these in many meals. Money is tight now so this video was very helpful. Cheers mate.. I will no longer stare at dry chickpeas and lentils in a bag on a supermarket shelf and wonder what are they all about.. Once again cheers.... Humus is Arabic for chickpeas, I didn't know that as well.
I didn't realise chickpeas could be frozen! Living alone I tend to use tinned but this is great. Well worth the effort to batch cook and freeze. I'm loving your videos.
Yes exactly.
Great video. It gave me exactly the information I wanted. I had known about cooking chickpeas with baking soda before but have never done this as I was uncertain how much baking soda to add or how long to leave the peas in it before cooking them. Now I will definitely batch-cook chickpeas and freeze them. I have found brown and green chickpeas in my wonderful Asian food shop and have also recently discovered black tahini. Now to make some hummus b-tahini
Best video on preparing chickpeas. Thank you so much!
Thank you for much for your encouraging words!! Really appreciate it ☺️
Exactly the best?
Thank you for this easy to follow step by step tutorial. I use it every time I’m making chickpeas and they come out perfect. Also great tip about freezing, I thought they would go mushy in the freezer but actually they retain their shape and flavour just fine. Thanks so much!
You are very welcome! We are glad you found it useful :)
Most informative vid for chickpeas on TH-cam
Thank you!
My absolute favorite go-to video when hydrogenating my dry chic peas. Thank you Lemon Laimoon!
Incredible! The very best method I have found on chickpea preparation! Made the softest, most delicious chickpeas without the long task of removing the skins by hand.. Cooked these in a pressure cooker and there were hardly any skins left. The ones that remained were completely soft and smoothly blended in with the rest of the chickpeas when making hummus. And so incredibly easy! I doubled the recipe without any problem. Thank you so much for this.... extremely grateful!!
I agree. I have one more year before I become a certified chef & although, I only learned of the power of chickpeas in college 10 years ago. I believe this method produces the softest I have seen thus far!
Thanks for sharing!!
Best of wishes to you Chef!!
Hearing you say "hummus" is so DELIGHTFUL.
great recipe , finally i made my hummus b-tahini nice and smooth, thank you
The addition addition of cinnamon to the boil💥👌🏼
Fantastic vid. Learned a lot, especially with the freezing tip! Thank you.
Yes the freezing tip, excellent.. Saves going through the soaking process each time you want chickpeas.
Please show more of how to do things.... this was SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD !
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you 😊
Thank you. Nice and easy. Your instruction is very clear.
Middle Eats just released their hummus dip recipe and one thing that stood out to me was their instruction to cook the chickpeas until mush. Curious to see what you advise when you come out with your hummus dip recipe.
This is such a helpful video. I am literally in the last stage (boiling this chick peas). I’m looking forward to tasting them. I love chick peas. When I receive a bag of friend chick peas I was wondering how I would prepare them.
Thanks again
I am so grateful for this, helped me a lot thank you!!
Very well explained. I'm making a lot so I cam just have a bag at hand. Your the best who explained.
This is very nice tutorial. Shukran aui.
Thanks so much. I used to miss so many steps.
Thank you for patience as to teaching step by step on kooking chickpeas. You have a new subskriber
Just got done making these. I didn't know they could be this good! Amazing
Glad you really like them! Thank you for supporting our channel!! And hope for more hummus dishes coming up!
Thanks this was super helpful!
Loved the instructional video. Do you have the recipe for hummus as well? I'd love to try it.
Thank you !! We're glad you like it! We hope to shoot a video for that soon :)
Great vid. Thanks. I’m trying to my first home made batch right now. The only thing, when do you remove the outter skin? After the final boil? My peas had skin on them. Not sure if yours did. What’s the best way to remove them once boiled? Thanks again
Thank you so much for this great information. Much appreciated. 🙌
Thank you so much for this tutorial~ I finally get to cook them properly
thank you for your easy step by step procedure of cooking dried chickpeas! it will surely help me to cook them. May I ask how long can we store chickpeas in the freezer?
i enjoyed this video thanks for sharing
oooh, cinnamon- nice tip- thanks!
Thank you this is so helpful ❤
thank you for your advise
Thank you. Very helpful.
You are very welcome! Glad you liked it 😀
Thank you. I will be trying this method. Does this method also work for most beans (pinto beans) that require soaking overnight?
I only listened to your video because I loooooove your accent.
Good info.
Hello 👋 everyone from Johannesburg South Africa 👍
Do you need to buy organic one?
Great informative video. Thank You 👍
Thanks for the video
Glad you like it :)
Thank you so much 😍👍🏻
Thank you so much for the informative video! Now I know why I nearly “died” from bloating when I tried falafel for the first time and been scared to eat them again.
very glad to know that you're finding our videos informative! 🤗
Im curious if baking soda could help with bloating from beans 😅
What about cooking them in a slow cooker? How long would they need and it might be a good retaining the value of the food?
When using the zip locked chickpeas what do you use for cremy texture...just water?
straight up !
Do you eat the out film around the chickpea?
Thanks for this--does anybody know whether the use of baking soda will also help with the digestive issues of other kinds of beans, etc? Would a baking soda bath be good for pinto, black, or lima beans, or black-eyed peas?
Thank you 😋
Thank you!
Will the outcome be the same if I use pressure cooker?
do you just boil the frozen chick peas when you wanna use them ??
If i soak the chickpeas without the salt will it alow down the oeoceas for cooking?
I followed this guide while preparing my first hummus ("bi tahini" apparently.) I hope you can add a recipe for that in the future along with ratios (so it's easier to calculate for different serving sizes.)
By the way, are there any uses for the soaking water after? I used tap water for the first 3 hour soak and I used distilled water for the overnight soak so I don't want to use too much drinking water only to throw it out later. Tap water has a bad reputation in my country.
Do you put them in the fridge for overnight soak?
When do you remove the skins of the chickpea? After you boil?
شكرا لك الطريقة سهلة و الشرح وافي
Would you freeze them before or after boiling?
Does this method remove the skins?
Hugs from Israel, habibi. Hope you (and we) have peace someday.
Free Palestine
@@Doukourenyc The Israeli portion of Palestine IS free. Kindly convince Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniya to make their portions of the former British Mandate free.
@@Doukourenyc Are you Roman ? Syria Palestina was defeated long ago.
And soon. Thankyou,!🦋🌸🥂🌿
If Syria Palestina was defeated long ago (as you wrote), there is no "Palestine", so what is there to free, as you wrote in an earlier comment ? If the Islamists (note Muslims are ok) would free their MINDS (forget about freeing the non-existant "Palestine"), then things would be much better.
Will it taste like cinnamon at the end if using cinnamon sticks.
Well, those canned foods are pretty much like the "instant" stuffs...all meant to make cooking/eating easy and convenient, particularly for those who have limited time left after all the daily modern world's busyness. 😁
Thanks sir 🙏
To decrease bloating can I put ginger powder instead wash with baking soda? Does ginger powder decrease bloating too?
His technique is terrible so dont bother. Just wash them dry than leave them in warm water with salt and a bit of baking soda(optionally) overnight. Make sure they stayd up to 12h.
You can wash after a bit than boil again till butter soft / just like regular beans
For using frozen chickpea should we dip them in water again for melting ice or use it directly as taken from freezer?
Usually we just take them out of the freezer the night before to defrost :) if you wanna use the whole, you can boil them a bit to warm them up. If you wanna use them mashed, it's best to cook them very well (beyond aldente), then mash them and freeze them mashed. Then, you would not add water to defrost them ...
@@LemonLaimoon ok thank you 🌸
Can I use sea salt instead of coarse salt?
Pray for u and lebanon 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Should I peel the skins off of them after they are cooked? I plan to use mine for hummus. First batch I made a few days according to the package directions did not come out well. They were hard and dry and went I went to mash them in my mortar and pestle the skins were pretty distinct.
If you are boiling chickpeas to make a hummus dip, always make sure to boil it a bit extra till the chickpeas become very soft and much easier to mash. If you are using a food processor, you prob don't need to remove the skin but if you are using a mortar and pestle, removing the skin will give you a smoother and silkier texture. Another tip would be to prepare your hummus dip (whether by a food processor or a mortar and pestle) while the chickpeas are still hot as it helps getting a better texture!
Try our method for preparing dried chickpeas and let us know how it turns out! That's the method most places in the Levant use. If you also have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask! ☺️🤗
Thanks
Thx
Can I leave chickpeas to soak overnight?
Yeah!
i hear the accent, I trust the instructions
Tq
So no peeling them?
May I have your recipe for hummus, please
Absolutely! We hope to shoot a hummus recipe soon, hopefully ☺️
How many cups of chickpeas is 500 grams ?
Anyone know how many dried chickpeas in cups for 500 grams?
Due to chickpeas irregular shape the weight of a cup will vary from cup to cup but using a displacement measurement a cup is 200 grams. The best thing to do is get a $10 kitchen scale from Amazon but if you don't want to do that just do about 2 and a half to 2 and 3 quarters cups, that will be pretty close
Fyi 500 grams is a little over a pound (1.1 pounds) and in the US, the store sells chickpeas aka garbanzo beans by the pound already in proportioned bags so if a recipe calls for 500 grams, just use the whole bag. This isn’t baking so you’re measurements don’t have to be exact Anyways I’m gonna assume a lot of stores around the world sell bags of chickpeas in 500 gram bags so it’s a 1 bag Beans to 1 TB Salt to 1 TB Baking soda. Now you don’t even need to measure or weight the chickpeas. …If you use a 1/2 bag of beans then it’s 1/2 TB Baking soda and 1/2 TB salt. If your making a big batch and use 2 bags then it’s 2 TB baking Soda and 2TB of Salt.
I did both steps, 3 hours with plenty of water and in the fridge overnight but the water never got yellowish at all? is that bad?
حلو وسهل
Can l cooke it with soaked water
Taheen do you mean Flour
Hi Ali, in the video we mention Tahini (as in sesame paste) not flour. I hope this helps.
for food only Cadmus
Are they supposed to smell like eggs
Chickpeas may have an unpleasant smell when boiling them. This is why we suggest adding a bay leaf or a stick of cinnamon while boiling, just to give them a pleasant aroma.
I did it over night and forgot to put the salt in 😱
Yeah it's okay :)
Whelp tried cutting time using a pressure cooker and that was a bad idea 😆
😂
Redeemed myself!!
Using pressure cooker reduces the time to just 10 or 12 minutes.
No tips for removing the skins? You just leave them on?
Am surprised you use baking soda but then don't remove the skins. Won't the skins be half off making for a strange texture? Especially annoying with humus dip that has skins.
Hah. That’s a Lebanese accent if I’m not mistaken
Hah! Correct 😅
Need more than 1 hour to prepare. You call this easy?
Easy and time-consuming are different concepts. This is VERY easy. I cook dried beans and it's about the same procedure.
Spot on! @@zvipatent
Thank you🎉
Thanks