Bio-Leben Organic Chickpeas 330g

The Best For Your Health!

Add more variety to your organic cooking with our Bio-Leben range of products and create delicious meals for yourself and your loved ones.
You may wonder how the chickpea got its name – in fact, it has nothing to do with chicks! The chickpea is really a “pea-pea”, for the word “chick” in this case is derived from the Latin word “cicer”, meaning pea.

Chickpeas are rich in protein, magnesium and iron. Their high protein content makes them particularly suitable for those who consume only small amounts of animal-derived foodstuffs, or none at all (for example, vegetarians and vegans).

Chickpeas are slightly nutty in taste. Use them in delicious salads, side dishes, soups, stews, purées and other savoury, vegetarian (vegan) dishes. Couscous with vegetables and chickpeas is one of the best-known of these.

Cooking Instructions:
Take the required amount of chickpeas and soak them overnight in plenty of water. Cook them for around 1 hour. When cooked, the chickpeas have a slightly crunchy texture.

You can fry the cooked chickpeas in a pan, together with a little oil.
Note: Our chickpeas are a natural product. Actual cooking times and amounts of water may differ to those given here.

Our Recipe Tip:
Hummus (Chickpea Purée) – vegetarian and vegan!
Soak 330g of Bio-Leben chickpeas (1 packet) overnight in plenty of cold water. Cook the chickpeas for at least 1 hour until they are quite soft. Pour off most of the cooking water, but put some of it aside for later. Mash the cooked chickpeas thoroughly with 50g peeled Bio-Leben sesame. Keep adding cooking water until the mixture is nice and creamy. Season with salt, paprika powder and 2-3 crushed cloves of garlic. Place the purée in a shallow bowl and drizzle with 3-4 tablespoons of Bio Leben olive oil (mixed with 1 teaspoon paprika power).
Serve the hummus preferably with flat bread or meatballs. Enjoy your meal!

Our organic chickpeas are a 100% plant product and are thus suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets.

Chickpeas are naturally gluten free and can be used in low gluten or gluten free nutrition.

Standard of Quality:
We make sure that all our products are of the highest quality and made of the best ingredients. Their processing has a minimal impact on the environment.

The chickpeas are a natural product. They have been thoroughly cleaned, but may still contain particles of soil, small stones or stems.
Warning: this product may contain traces of nuts, soy, sesame, gluten and mustard, and is therefore not suitable for those persons allergic to these products.

Our wide range of Bio-Leben pulses offers you many other organic staple foods for healthy and varied eating, for example our Bio-Leben royal black adzuki beans, Bio-Leben large dark sprekled beans, Bio-Leben white chickpeas, Bio-Leben beluga lentils, Bio-Leben red lentils, Bio-Leben green lentils and our Bio-Leben lentil mix.

Ingredients: chickpeas*
*from controlled organic cultivation

Nutritional Values:

100 g contain on average:

Energy: 306 kcal (1294 Kj)
Protein: 19g
Carbohydrates: 44g
Fat: 5,9g