What do I do with....

JanerZzz

Fresh, unshelled garbanzo beans! I just bought some out of curiosity. Any suggestions....

GrampsWooha

eat em! lol

wonnder1

Raw they have the taste of raw peas. Cooked there is a nutty sweet flavor with a hint of edame. Over-cooked they taste like lima beans ... over-cooked lima beans.

Put a little olive oil in a frying pan. Add a layer of garbanzo beans in their shell. Cover and cook on medium heat for five minutes until bottoms of beans turn black and top of beans are a bright green. Eat like edame, popping out of the shell into your mouth.

The charring gives a nice smoky flavor to the beans and the light olive oil coating ... like eating popcorn. Adding salt to these would be good.

- Microwaved or steamed and tossed with chili and lime

This is how garbanzo beans are traditionally eaten in Mexico from what I read ... well, not microwaved, but tossed with chili and lime.

Fill a Tupperware bowl with garbanzo beans in the pod. Lightly cover bowl. Microwave for one minute. Sprinkle with chile powder. Shake container to coat beans. Squeeze lime on beans and shake again to distribute. Eat hot, popping beans from pod, like edame. They are also good refrigerated and eaten a day or two later.

Most microwave recommendations said two minutes, but that over-cooked them in my microwave and the bean shriveled up. Try it at a minute. If that isn’t enough microwave in increments of 30 seconds.