tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081854755492444172.post953623429759354804..comments2024-03-09T09:33:00.697-08:00Comments on Imp of the Diverse: What to do with chickpea flour?John Dumashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08908646219266836986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1081854755492444172.post-22463388402675382222014-05-12T00:01:36.136-07:002014-05-12T00:01:36.136-07:00There are a whole raft of Indian dishes (well, may...There are a whole raft of Indian dishes (well, maybe not a whole raft, but definitely some) that are made with chickpea/garbanzo-bean flour, which they know as besan. We have some frozen vegetable pakoras from Trader Joe’s sitting in our freezer right now, and the coating on them is chickpea flour. There are even Indian candies made with besan, I kid you not (and they’re pretty tasty, too). <br /><br />Side note: I wonder if the chickpea/garbanzo bean reference is geographical? Growing up in Southern California, I never heard my family call them chickpeas, only “garbanzo beans.“ I should look that up; there’s got to be some obscure American Dialect Society map of that somewhere, wouldn’t you think?Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422734338035800955noreply@blogger.com