Topic: Dried chick peas,runner bean seeds

[Hyacinth]

Just wondered - anyone got any really nice recipes for using chick peas up? Know I could 'google' but wondered if anyone has come across anything other than curry or that dip thingy which are the only ways I know?

Runner bean seeds - Bob Flowerdew says that he treats them as any other dried legume and adds them to soups, casseroles, etc..anyone done this? would the 10 mnt. fast-boil rule apply? And, again, anything more inspiring than soup, etc?  Ta, Lish

[Suze_O]

Yo Lishka

From the middle east (very topical today  ;) )

6 med toms skinned and chopped, olive oil, 2 med onions chopped, 4 cloves garlic finely chopped, chick peas (cooked of course!) 4tbs finely chopped parsley, 1/2 tsp thyme, salt (to taste)

Heat oil fry onions & garlic until soft. add toms and then other ingredients, bring to boil, cover, simmer 15 mins.

Or from India, hot and spicy (bit like me  ;) )

Oil, 2 med onions, finely chopped, 8 cloves garlic ditto, 1 tbsp ground coriander seeds, 2 tsp ground cumin seeds, 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, 1 tsp tumeric, 6 tbsp finely chopped toms, chick peas, 2 tsp roasted cumin seeds, 2 tsp paprika, 1 tsp garam masala, 1 tbsp lemon juice, 1 fresh hot green chillie, 2 tsp finely grated ginger.

Stir fry onions and garlic, add coriander, cumin, cayenne, turmeric.  Stir and cook few secs.  Add toms, cook till amalgamated.  Add peas and 8 fl oz water.  Sitr, add roasted cumin, paprika, garaam masala, salt, lemon juice.  Cover simmer for 10.   Remove cover.  Add chillie & ginger.  Cook 1 min.  Flavour will improve if refrigerated 24 hrs.

Good with bread and garlic yoghurt!

[Hyacinth]

Suze, got all the ingredients for (2) - just missing the ginger...so I'll buy some of that, & give it a go tomorrow...but leave it for a day before I come back with the final definitive verdict  ;) very many thanks - Lishka

[Suze_O]

Ok Lish

It is a Madhur Jaffrey recipe

Hope it does not exacerabate your wind probs  :o

[tim]

- with all those lovely additives, you could substitute PARSNIPS?? = Tim

[Hyacinth]

Well, bought the ginger today...browsed a local indoor market & came across this most amazing West Indian stall...broke off a piece of ginger & it cost me all of...three pence!!

Chatting with the lady who owns the stall about all the selection of yams she's got...all different coloured flesh, diff. tastes apparently? & diff. ways of cooking them....anyone else a yam-nut(ter)? When I come back in March, she's going to cut slices of each & give me individual recipes..

And she was selling huge, but huge bulbs of garlic, white-y/purple, for 25p for four!

And all-sorts of exotic stuff I didn't know anything about.

Reminds me of Martin, a friend in Cheltenham - after his 1st wife died, he remarried and his new partner is West Indian. Martin's diabetic & the H. asked him to keep a list of everything he ate over a 4-week period. When he reported back & the chart showed blank for the 1st 2- wks, then a list of cornflakes & mashed tats for the 2nd 2-wks he was asked why this was. He remarked that his wife has gone back to Jamaica after the blank period & it was only then that he realized he couldn't spell the foods that he was eating  ;D ;D ;D - Lish

[Hyacinth]

Suze, the recipe was a winner! Tweaked it a bit...added some diced carrot and celery (got lots of carrots & celery and substituted tamarind for the lemon juice, oh! and added some strips of red, orange & yellow pepper at the end to make it really colourful - and it is gorgeous!! - many thanks, Lish

[Suze_O]

Oh Well Thanks Lish

You mucked me recipe about and pronounced it gorgeus.

Great!

[Hyacinth]

I may have pronounced it "gorgeus" Suze, but I spelled it with an

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

;D Lish

[Doris_Pinks]

Errrrrrrrrr  with the wind thing........NEVER cook your beans in the water they have been (bean?) soaking in, always rinse thoroughly and add fresh water to cook in! And never add the bean(!) liquor they have bean cooking in to a recipe, rinse the darlings first!  Helps with the digestion (and I should know!!!)