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Chickpeas
鷹嘴豆
Chickpeas, 三角豆 or 雞心豆 in Hong Kong: beige, with a little beak, floury when cooked soft, the bean that gives 喳咋 its bite. Dried and tinned on every Australian supermarket pulse shelf, and cheap in big bags as kabuli chana at Indian grocers; dried ones soak overnight and take an hour and a half, tinned ones go in for the last ten minutes.
Preparation
Soak dried chickpeas overnight and simmer an hour and a half; rinse tinned ones and add at the end.
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
Australian name · chickpeas (dried or tinned)
Where · Coles and Woolworths pulse shelf; Indian grocers (kabuli chana)
Where · Coles and Woolworths pulse shelf; Indian grocers (kabuli chana)
