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The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, [2] [3] cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram [ 4 ] [ 5 ] or Bengal gram ; [ 5 ] chhola , chhana , chana , or channa ; garbanzo [ 5 ] or garbanzo bean ; or Egyptian pea . [ 4 ]
Farinata – Chickpea pancake; Ganthiya – Indian snack food; Guasanas – a dish from Mexico consisting of chickpeas, water and salt. The chickpeas are steamed and shelled before serving. Hummus – Middle Eastern chickpea puree dish; Kadhi – Yogurt-based Dish from India; Karantika – Algerian street dish – Algerian chickpea flan
Since the chickpea has descended from this wild plant, there is a possibility that this wild progenitor can offer other forms of edible chickpeas after domestication. In wild chickpea ( C. reticulatum ), a considerable proportion of the mature pods remain intact, and this characteristic leads to the species being described as pre-adapted to ...
Aquafaba (/ ˌ ɑː k w ə ˈ f ɑː b ə /) is the viscous water in which legume seeds such as chickpeas have been cooked. Its use in cuisine was the discovery of the French musician Joël Roessel. Due to its ability to mimic functional properties of egg whites in cooking, aquafaba can be used as a direct replacement for them in some cases ...
Well-known legumes include beans, chickpeas, peanuts, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, tamarind, alfalfa, and clover. Legumes produce a botanically unique type of fruit – a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides.
Hummus (/ ˈ h ʊ m ə s /, / ˈ h ʌ m ə s /; [1] [2] Arabic: حُمُّص ḥummuṣ, ' chickpeas ', Hebrew: חומוס ḥummus), also spelled hommus or houmous, is a Middle Eastern dip, spread, or savory dish made from cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon juice, and garlic. [3]
Lathyrus sativus, also known as grass pea, cicerchia, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, [2] white pea [3] and white vetch, [4] is a legume (family Fabaceae) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa. [5]
In 1988, the Israeli botanist Daniel Zohary and the German botanist Maria Hopf formulated their founder crops hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across much of Eurasia, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North ...