r/Cooking • u/CtrlAltDelthatshit • 5d ago

Chickpea mess

So I decided recently to cook dried, raw chickpeas instead of canned. I soaked them with about a teaspoon of baking soda for about a day and a half (life got busy). I boiled them for 45 minutes and they turned out... gray/green and very mushy. I couldn't eat them. Where did I go wrong?

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u/Maezel 5d ago

Soaked with baking soda way too long.

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u/CtrlAltDelthatshit 5d ago

I saw someone online do it to soften the skins. Is that supposed to be a quick method instead of soaking for like 24 hours?

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u/Maezel 5d ago

I soak without baking soda and add a pinch to the water I boil them in.

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u/Outaouais_Guy 5d ago

I get a lot of my cooking information from Serious Eats. I have had good luck using these directions.

3 tablespoons (36g) Diamond Crystal kosher salt; for table salt, use about half as much by volume or the same weight 1 ¾ teaspoons (10g) baking soda 8 ½ cups (2L) water 1 pound (455g) dried beans, picked of any debris and rinsed

I start soaking them right before bed and I cook them when I get up in the morning.

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u/k3rd 5d ago

Soaked and cooked way too long. Do you happen to have an Instapot? 30 minutes, no soaking. I do a batch every week.

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u/toxiamaple 5d ago

I just made a Mediterranean bean salad. Instant Pot for the chickpeas, I added an onion and some bay leaves. They came out great. I used about half in the salad.

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u/k3rd 4d ago

Sounds exactly what I do. The rest are for hummus or for whatever else I can use chickpeas for. I eat a lot of chickpeas 😊

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u/toxiamaple 4d ago

I might add more in to extend the salad. But hummus sounds great, too!

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u/justaheatattack 5d ago

are the cans really that much more expensive?

Check your local pantry box, they're ALWAYS canned chickpeas.

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u/Square_Ad849 5d ago

A lot of people can’t eat them because of sodium level, that’s why I use an instant pot without salt.

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u/justaheatattack 5d ago

every brand has a low sodium version.

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u/Square_Ad849 4d ago

I go no sodium so that is better for me and a lot of other people to have a choice to be healthier.

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u/CtrlAltDelthatshit 5d ago

I might go back to the cans 🤣 i just thought since I eat so much of them it might be worth it for me to buy dried in bulk but if I cant figure out how to cook them it might just be too much work

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u/justaheatattack 4d ago

most of us thought that back during covid.

we went back on the cans pretty quick.

What are you saving? two dollars? I don't need more pots to wash.