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Sauteed Fresh Chickpeas

Fresh Chickpeas

Delicious and easy ... if you can find fresh chick peas (garbanzo beans).

2 cups fresh garbanzo beans, washed
olive oil to coat pan
pat butter (if desired, for flavor)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water

Heat oil and butter in sautee pan. Add garbanzo beans in a single layer. Add water and lemon juice. Cover. Cook about 4 minutes, or until undersides of bean start to brown and burn. Only shake side to side while cooking.

Pour into a bowl (with oil/juices) and serve. Eat sort of like edamame. Lick fingers.

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Fried Chickpeas with Chorizo and Spinach

This runs the risk of being Very Salty, but if you can avoid that fate, it is Very Tasty.

From Mark Bittman via Tex-Mix

1/4 cup olive oil, plus more for drizzling
2 cups cooked or canned chickpeas, as dry as possible
Salt and black pepper
4 ounces chorizo, diced
1/2 pound spinach, roughly chopped
1/4 cup sherry
1 to 2 cups bread crumbs.

Heat the broiler.

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Falafel

... or you could just buy falafel mix and add water. We didn't actually follow this recipe, but it looks good.

http://mideastfood.about.com/od/maindishes/r/falafelrecipe.htm

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Ragada Patties (Chaat)

IndianFoodForever provides a good basic chaat recipe for ragada patties. I'd add more tomato and make them very finely diced.

For the Patties (can be done ahead):

3 Potato (Aloo)
1/4 tblsp Coriander Leaves (Dhania Patta)
1/2 tblsp Garam Masala
1/4 tblsp Cumin Seed (Jeera)
1/4 tblsp Turmeric (Haldi)
Bread crumbs
Oil

* Boil, peel and mash the potatoes well.
* Take the mashed potatoes into a bowl, add ginger garlic paste, dhania powder, jeera powder, turmeric powder and salt.

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Mediterranean Style Hummus

Adapted from:

http://sarawithanhishealthy.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/restaurant-style-hu...

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Gallo Pinto

1 lb (450 gr.) Small "centroamerica" red beans.
1 small or medium onion
3 cups (700 ml) chicken broth
2 cups (350 ml) precocido / parbroiled white rice
½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) salt
1 Tablespoon (15 ml) vegetable oil 1-3 Tablespoon oil to fry the Gallo Pinto

Cover beans with water and soak overnight. Drain the beans and add fresh water to an inch (2.5-cm) above the top of the beans, salt, and bring to a boil. Cover the pan and reduce heat to very low simmer until beans are soft (~3 hours).

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Easy Rice and Peas

2 cans dark red kidney beans
1 can coconut milk
1 can worth of water
2 cups rice
1 scotch bonnet or habanero pepper, whole
4 T butter
salt, pepper and thyme

In a very large pot, heat kidney beans with their can-water, water (how much?) coconut milk, and spices until simmering. Add rice, butter and pepper, let cook until done.

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It's Bean a Long Thyme soup

Soak overnight: 3 cups dried black beans 2 cups dried black-eyed peas 2 cups dried pintos Other beans as available

Rinse and cover with 2" of water add 32oz of veg stock salt port (4 slices of fatty bacon work well!) 2 cans diced tomatoes 2 jalapenos, chopped (or 1 scotch bonnet or habanero, left whole) 2 medium onions, diced 4 cloves garlic, minced
spices to taste (use a LOT, beans soak it all up):

salt
pepper
rosemary
thyme
cumin
chili powder or (better) powedered chipolte peppers
a dash each of:
allspice
paprika

bring to a boil, add:
1 cup green lentils

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Chinese Long Beans

1 1/2 lb Chinese long beans*
1/2 cup unsalted dry-roasted peanuts (2 1/2 oz; not cocktail peanuts)
2 teaspoons soy sauce
2 to 3 small fresh Thai chiles** (to taste), finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Add shrimp to make a full meal

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