Comments on: How to Cook Chickpeas in an Instant Pot

By: Harriet Gilman

Harriet Gilman — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:13:53 +0000

In reply to Neil. I love this post! Everything so nicely explained. From my experience, beans that stay hard after prolonged cooking are just old. If possible, discard them and start over with fresh dried beans. Beans soften faster when you add baking powder to the pot - 1/2 to 2 tsp. When cooking chickpeas for making hummus, I always add baking soda. (I skip baking soda when cooking beans for general use because I have read that it interferes with our uptake of thiamine. I don’t know if that’s accurate)

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:35:28 +0000

In reply to Christine Cowen. Me too!!!????

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:54:05 +0000

In reply to LisanF. what cooking instructions do you use? Time, water level etc..and the simple recipe sounds delicious!

By: LisanF

LisanF — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 22:04:46 +0000

Ah, Keith … You are forgetting the most important element of all — TASTE! In all of my years (decades, actually!) of cooking with canned chick peas, I can only say, that I had cooked dried chickpeas from a big communal bowl in a restaurant in the south of France about 5 years ago. They were just dressed with salt, pepper, lemon juice and olive oil. They were incredible. The bowl travelled from table to table in the restaurant and I kept going back for more. Why? Because I’d never tasted better chickpeas in my life before. When I got home, I tried to replicate the dish — Not nearly as good. Many years later, I got an Instant Pot. On a whim, I decide to try cooking dried chickpeas in it, having tried to do the same with my grandma’s pressure cooker, with varied results. Well…. those chickpeas were so incredibly good that, now, I cook a cup or two of them every week or so… sometimes with no recipe or meal in mind (unusual for me!) … I just like having them to hand. Sometimes they go into curry, sometimes into hummus (the best hummus EVER!!) and sometimes they are just dressed in a bowl with salt, pepper, lemon juice and olive oil. Sublime.

Taste. For some of us, it’s all about that! 🙂 Peace…

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By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:26:09 +0000

In reply to Freeman. There's one element that you all seem to be forgetting in calculating the cost of cooking dried beans: the value of the time required. There are more ways to determine the value of one's time than I can go into in this comment. The easiest is to use the wage rate you earn at your job, but for simplicity's sake, I will just assume a $15/hour value (and say I think that is low). If you spend 5 minutes prepping this recipe as it states, and another 5 minutes cleaning up your Instant Pot afterward, that adds (10÷60) × $15 or $2.50 to the cost of preparing your dried beans. Add that to the direct cost of the dried beans, and you have $5, the same as the cost of the canned beans. You could mitigate that by decreasing the value of your time or by cooking larger batches of dried beans at a time, but unless your time is worth less than minimum wage and you really need 5 pounds of cooked beans at the end of the day, the total cost of preparing dried beans is going to end up being just about the same as that of canned beans. You aren't going to save any material amount of money by cooking your own beans. You MAY get more satisfaction by doing so, however, and that has a value as well, but generally, you're breaking even, at best.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:03:20 +0000

In reply to Neil. Neil, you may want to google "BPA can lining."

By: Christine Cowen

Christine Cowen — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:10:17 +0000

In reply to Mary.

Researching lol is my number one procrastination tool!

By: Robert Fory

Robert Fory — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 18:10:07 +0000

In reply to Suzanne. You are all wrong. No one has included the cost of the water and the cost of the fuel used.????

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:49:00 +0000

In reply to Davilyn Eversz. Go to your local Indian market and buy a bag of channa dal which are small chickpeas that are already split.