NEVER Soak Your Chickpeas in Plain Water Again — Try This Old Italian Trick Instead

#ItalianCooking #ItalianFood #Chickpeas 📖 Nonna Rosaria’s book (732 pages), with her mother’s 173 recipes: https://rosariafiore.com Stop soaking your chickpeas the wrong way! If yours stay hard like little pebbles after two hours, if the skins float on top and your hummus comes out gritty like sand, or if a one-dollar can still beats your own pot, this one’s for you. In this video, Nonna Rosaria shares ten old Italian tricks from her mother’s kitchen in Calabria for chickpeas that come out soft, creamy and full of flavor, with skins so tender you never feel them. You won’t need a pressure cooker or an Instant Pot. She counts down to the one thing her mother put in the soaking water that nobody else in the village did, and that no bag of chickpeas will ever tell you. You’ll learn: how to spot old chickpeas at the store that will never go soft why a small bowl leaves the top chickpeas hard what goes in the pot so chickpeas taste like something, not the bag why chickpeas foam so much, and how to stop the pot from boiling over why a hard boil gives you mushy outsides and chalky middles the one can of tomatoes that keeps chickpeas hard all afternoon why you squeeze five chickpeas, not one why the cooking water is gold, and what fancy restaurants do with it how to get smooth, creamy hummus with no gritty skins the truth about a pinch of baking soda in your soaking water #Chickpeas #ItalianCooking #ItalianFood