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CHICKPEA SOUP RECIPE

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Jup, the world's favourite protein source is the chickpea. Not beef, not mutton, not pork, not chicken, not fish.... the not-so-humble-chickpea. AKA a Garbanzo bean.

Healthy, full of phytosterols, low glycemic index, cheap, slow food made fast, good stuff. But, chickpea recipes are low in flavour.

I'm a writer but no poet, but aunt B, well into her eighties made this contribution for my brother and his dear wife who cooked them a Chickpea Soup Recipe :

Our Derek was Esther adoring,

But alas found the chick-peas quite boring!

By adding the sour-cream,

He created a taste-dream,

And now they're both peacefully snoring!

So, add garlic, rosemary, thyme, garlic, tomatoes when cooking chickpeas ... all good stuff. Sour cream too if your LDL cholesterol is in good shape!

An aside: I made a mistake this week. I bought some Silverskin onions, but I didn't have my specs with me. These food companies are devils! In print I couldn't read without my glasses, only barely with them: 'acidifier citric acid, preservative E233, "flavour" whatever that means, sweetener saccharine.' In short my little onions are full of crap. Don't use such as these for your Chickpea Soup Recipe. Take an extra 30 seconds and peel a real onion! These are best described as junk food, and truth said, they taste of it too.

INGREDIENTS

  1. One large onion
  2. A couple carrots
  3. One large tomato
  4. 3 cloves garlic and a couple slithers of hot chili
  5. 1 cup + chickpeas
  6. 2 sprigs thyme
  7. 3 sprigs rosemary
  8. Half a pound of your favourite pasta
  9. Chicken bones stock

PREPARATION

  • Soak the chickpeas for at least 12 hours, replacing the water several times
  • Boil the chickpeas with the sprigs of thyme on low heat until tender, roughly an hour and half

  • TIP: Soak a couple pounds of chickpeas, cook them and freeze them in cup-sized containers.

  • Peel and chop your onion, and the carrots
  • Fry gently in a couple TBS butter
  • Add the garlic and the slithers of chili
  • Add the tomato, roughly chopped
  • Separately, in another pan fry the sprigs of rosemary in a little butter or olive oil for a couple minutes
  • Meantime boil your pasta until it's "al dente" (tender, crisp, still firm!)
  • Drain the chickpeas, rinse, and liquidise together with two cups of your chicken bones stock
  • Bring again to the boil, add the pasta
  • Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • Garnish with your fried rosemary and slithers of cheese.

Photos to follow once I get back to South Africa and my beloved AppleMac.






HOW TO COOK CHICKPEAS

Cooking chickpeas isn't arduous, nor is it time-consuming, but it does take a little aforethought. Total time is about 15 hours, but actual work time, probably no more than five minutes.

  1. Soak at least a pound, and preferably about a kilo of dried chickpeas for at least 12 hours.
  2. Change the water periodically. Drain.
  3. In a large heavy pot, cover with boiling water and bring to the boil. Simmer on lowest heat setting.
  4. Until properly tender. It may take up to two hours.
  5. Drain, rinse in cold water, and freeze what you aren't going to use in roughly 1 cup quantities. Done.
Cooking chickpeas is simple. Now you can get on with your chickpea recipes ...



CHICKPEA BURGERS

The chickpea, a legume, like the soya bean but with a big difference. Chickpea burgers are delic, but frankly I don't care for soya beans. Hog food! On the other hand, CHICKPEA BURGERS are a serious contender for hamburgers. Less flavour perhaps if you've been brought up a McDonald's diet, but without the cholesterol, the hormones and the increased risk of cancer.



HUMMUS

I make hummus twice a week, because I add yoghurt it doesn't keep too long. Believe you me, it NEVER gets thrown away. Even my grandkids are enjoying it now. I'll admit being a bit weird, but if I have good dollop for breakfast then I'm not famished at 11am, not unimportant when slaving away at the CHIROPRACTIC COALFACE ... Then HELENS 15 EURO SALAD eaten at least 3-5 days a week, always gets a good dollop. On my lunch sandwiches...

You want to get off those cholesterol meds? Have Helens salad and a dollop of hummus every day and you're half way there. Add QUAKER OATS RECIPES like muesli and an apple, rich in soluble fibre, and you're home and dry.

ASIDE: A patient said to me yesterday how much less ache he has in his arms and legs since he has stopped taking statins. But he will have to change his diet. Cholesterol was up at 9. Dangerous. This CHICKPEA SOUP RECIPE is a great way to start. Chickpeas lie second only to oats on the cholesterol-lowering food list. Do it! Or suffer aching legs, and worse loss of libido. AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE


APPLE DIET ...


CHICKEN BONES BOUILLON

Oh, I nearly forgot. Do you want to improve the flavour of all your soups, and the health of your bones? This simple chicken bones extract, rich in chondroitin sulphate and glucosamine has been shown at Harvard medical school to be a winner with the inflammatory arthritides. Suffering from joint disease....

CHICKEN BONES BOUILLON ....


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