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Mee-OW =^..^= asked in Food & DrinkOther - Food & Drink · 10 years ago

I soaked chick peas (garbanzo beans) overnight, yet when I cooked them they were STILL hard...?

What did I do wrong

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  • Diane B.
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    You don't say how long you cooked them, but garbanzos are large and dense and take a fairly long time to cook even after soaking.

    If you cooked them for at least 1 1/2 hrs and they were still hard after soaking "overnight," check out some of the other factors that could be at play in my answer to this previous question:

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201102...

    (check out the P.S. in particular)

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Did you under cook them? Or did you add salt at the beginning? Because cooking beans in salted water makes them harder.

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