Sorry, finally getting around to making this today and I realized it has roast red pepper which, I can't eat. No bell peppers in any form for me. Maybe some fire roasted tomatoes? What do you think?
Hi Debbie, I have dried chickpeas at this point in the pandemic. How would you alter the chickpea stew recipe to use dried instead of canned? Can it be done? I feel like stew is one of the more likely places for it to be a success?
It can definitely be done! Two cans of chickpeas is equivalent to roughly 1/2 pound of dried beans. Do you want to cook the whole pound and have extra on-hand? You can refrigerate or freeze them in the cooking liquid. If you do that, measure out 3-3 1/2 cups of cooked chickpeas to use in the recipe (and I'd use some of the cooking liquid in place of the water in the recipe, too--it'll help thicken it).
Sorry, finally getting around to making this today and I realized it has roast red pepper which, I can't eat. No bell peppers in any form for me. Maybe some fire roasted tomatoes? What do you think?
Which recipe, Carrie?
Oh wait, you asked about the chickpea stew earlier... Yes, I'd say 1/2 cup of roasted diced tomatoes would work!
Debbie it was SO good. I upped the canned roasted tomatoes a bit and I used 2 T of Ararat seasoning from La Boîte to add a smokey pepper flavor and it was incredible. https://shop.laboiteny.com/products/ararat-n-35?_pos=1&_sid=7853d18d6&_ss=r
Thank you!!
Hi Debbie, I have dried chickpeas at this point in the pandemic. How would you alter the chickpea stew recipe to use dried instead of canned? Can it be done? I feel like stew is one of the more likely places for it to be a success?
It can definitely be done! Two cans of chickpeas is equivalent to roughly 1/2 pound of dried beans. Do you want to cook the whole pound and have extra on-hand? You can refrigerate or freeze them in the cooking liquid. If you do that, measure out 3-3 1/2 cups of cooked chickpeas to use in the recipe (and I'd use some of the cooking liquid in place of the water in the recipe, too--it'll help thicken it).