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chickpea

chickpea

14 1.0
A round pale yellow seed eaten in dishes like hummus and salads
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkˌpi/
translation icon : garbanzo
  • Gosh, I want that hummus with the fried chickpeas on top of the olive oil.
  • drained chickpeas
  • rinsed chickpeas
  • a cup of chickpeas

You can buy miso paste from chickpeas or soybeans.

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Examples

  • Surprisingly, making chickpeas from scratch does not take a lot of time.

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  • So I had chickpeas and I also had some red kidney beans.

  • So Mom got a chickpea salmon salad that looks really good.

  • Bring the water with the chickpeas in it to a boil, then cover and lower the heat.

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  • If you started with 1 cup of dried chickpeas, add 6 cups of water to the pot.

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  • I'm going to make chickpea salad and some cucumber hand rolls.

  • Add in the sweet potatoes and chickpeas, and allow to cook for about 5-10 minutes.

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  • Add the soaked and rinsed chickpeas to a large pot and cover with water.

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  • But before you can prepare hummus or crispy roasted chickpeas, you need to make the chickpeas (garbanzo beans).

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  • I prepared a delicious chickpea salad with cucumbers and tahini dressing.

Synonyms

bean
vschickpea
512 1.0

An edible seed or pod from plants like peas and lentils used for food

is the narrower food name for one particular pale yellow seed
legume
vschickpea
17 2.9

A plant with seeds in pods, like beans or peas, that people eat

is the more specific culinary seed type within that larger plant family
garbanzo
vschickpea
  • US
4 3.8

A round light-brown bean used for food like hummus

is the standard culinary name rather than this alternative name
Egyptian pea
vschickpea
5.2

A plant with short pods that have one or two round seeds people eat

is the common culinary name rather than the botanical label
edible bean
vschickpea
1.0

A seed from plants like peas or lentils that you can eat

is a specific pale yellow seed commonly used in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes

Compounds

chickpea plant
  • Specialized
3.2

An annual plant that produces round edible seeds called chickpeas

Surface Forms

chickpea singular
chickpeas plural

Etymology

Chickpea may look like 'chick' + 'pea', but it actually comes from the old Latin name cicer, which became an old word chiche and later joined the familiar pea. So chickpea is the name for the round pale-yellow bean we eat, also called 'garbanzo'.