chickpeas

skintscotslass

Hi guys

Most of the recipes I have are for a 400g can of chickpeas. How many grams of dried chickpeas do I need?

Thanks

kittycat204

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-question-about-chickpeas

Tins of chickpeas are already cooked, they should also show a dry weight on the main content of the can as well whole weight - but thats the weight of the chickpeas drained, not desiccated. If your recipe calls for one can then a standard size 400g can prob contains about 220 - 230g of chickpeas once drained. I'd expect that you want to compare that dry weight to the the weight of your chickpeas once you've soaked and cooked them.

lizzyb1812

1 can of chickpeas = 400g total weight including water, 240g drained.

250g dry chickpeas, soaked and cooked makes about 550g cooked chickpeas = 2.3 cans. Well it did when I tried it.

250 divided by 2.3 = 109g dried chickpeas to make the equivalent of a can of cooked chickpeas.

Obviously this will change depending on how much water the chickpeas take up etc, but as a rough guide you could say 110g dried chickpeas will make about the same as a can.

HTH

Ilona

As a rough guide I would say 467, give or take 3 or 4. :rotfl:
Ilona

marywooyeah

could you use another 400g can from a different food - fill it up with chickpeas to measure it out?

Puddleglum

I soak and cook a whole 1kg bag at a time and then divide the cooked peas into 4 tubs and store in the freezer. 1 tub is more or less equal to a tin.

HTH

VfM4meplse

Puddleglum wrote: »

I soak and cook a whole 1kg bag at a time and then divide the cooked peas into 4 tubs and store in the freezer. 1 tub is more or less equal to a tin.

A giant tin! 1kg dried chickpeas will produce over 2kg of cooked product - given that a 400g tin is only half filled with chickpeas - remember that the tins don't hold that much weight in product, at least half is brine / water.

A couple of handfuls of dried product should do. Cooking in bulk and freezing as Puddleglum does saves hassle though.

Justamum

I cook a whole bag then freeze in a bag. When I need a tin I just weigh out 8oz. A 500g bag of any pulse gives you about 5 tins of beans.

zippychick

ive merged this with our chickpeas thread

PipneyJane

Does anyone have a recipe for oven baked falafel? Or tips on how to oven bake them when using a regular recipe?

I'm just loath to dig out the deep-fat-fryer, since I've never used it and have little space in which to set it up to cook. I have a very good recipe (author and name of source book escapes me) which uses soaked, ground, uncooked chickpeas mixed with spices then deep-fried. It's lovely, with the right taste and texture. I suppose I could shallow fry the falafel but that seems as much hassle as setting up the fryer.

Note - I did try, once, to oven bake them (a lifetime and several diets ago). Only memory is that they came out hard and didn't cook properly.

Many thanks.