Chickpea bread

Submitted by zorra on November 2, 2006 - 8:03am

Recently I baked the following bread with chickpea flour. This recipe is my own creation. The chickpea flour gives the bread a light sweet taste.

chickpea bread

100 g chickpea flour
150 g white flour
5 g fresh yeast
~110 g water
1 TL honey
5 g salt
50 g refreshed sourdough

Dissolve yeast and honey in 20 g water. Mix the two flours and salt. Add sourdough, yeast and rest of water, mix and knead your dough (by hand or mixer) until smooth and elastic. Shape into a ball and leave covered for 1 hour or until double in size.
Shape and leave to prove for another 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 230C. Mist inside with a spray. After 10 minutes reduce heat to 190 C and bake for another 20 minutes. Remove and cool.

Recipe in German: http://kochtopf.twoday.net/stories/2841127/

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Submitted by lagrassa on March 14, 2007 - 2:53am.

using chickpea flour...

I recently tried something similar with results not nearly as beautiful -- I overproofed, etc. But I'm very curious to use the chickpea flour I have in the cupboard. It is great in small doses (2Tbs) to a pane pugliese.

I'm also itching to try fermenting a chickpea flour dough, along the lines of greek chickpea rusks... http://www.paula-wolfert.com/recipes/bread.html

Any other tips, besides this recipe? Any failures to avoid?

Submitted by Doc Tracy on December 24, 2009 - 8:37am.

where did you get your grains?

Where do you get chickpea flour?

Submitted by RobynNZ on December 25, 2009 - 4:30pm.

Chickpea flour

Hi Tracy

In NZ I buy chickpea flour at the indian store (they call it besan flour). I like to make socca:

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2009/06/socca_enfin.html

and I see a link at the bottom of David's post for Bob's Red Mill and they call it Garbanzo Bean Flour

Season's Greetings

Robyn

Submitted by coffee1619 on March 27, 2008 - 6:33pm.

weights & measurements

It would be really great if all the recipes were not only in grams and ounces, but also in cups, teaspoons and tablespoons. That way everyone would be able to use these great recipes.

Submitted by nougat on April 21, 2008 - 11:07am.

A simple electronic scale in

A simple electronic scale in the kitchen will give you weight by oz and grams. I find this helpful as I use alot of recipes from other countries.

Submitted by JuliaIWish on October 3, 2009 - 10:42pm.

the UN-500 scale is very

the UN-500 scale is very simple to use, highly reliable, and has no complicated controls or adjustments - and never requires calibration. This is the best & most reliable unit I have ever seen for under $100.00.
This is great for cooking, and perfect for other applications of course, such as weighing Jewelry, Food/Dietary measurements, Herbs & other assorted hobbies that require accurate weight measurements. It is small enough so that I can pack it when I am travelling - I can take it as hand luggage onboard during flights or pack it & it won't break.

Submitted by Doc Tracy on December 24, 2009 - 8:42am.

scale

I bought scale for $23.00 on amazon.com and it does amazing things to your bread baking. Take the leap and get one. You'll be very happy you did.

Submitted by Flo Makanai on October 27, 2008 - 7:21am.

Very interesting

I've just bought a 4 lbs bag of chickpea flour and I was wondering how I was going to use it other than in little pancakes or added to other flours for a vegetable tart crust. You gave me an excellent idea, thanks a lot!

Submitted by Sparkie on October 30, 2008 - 7:15am.

what is a TL

looks mighty tasty, but in the recipe what is the honey measurement? I can weigh the stuff in grams, but the abbreviation is unknown to me.

A teaspoon is about 5 ml's . Corning glass measuring cups have metric on them, but a scale is better. My great grandmother (a wonderful Sicilian cook from a family of pastry bakerys), scaled everything, something lost on generations after her.

thanks

sparkie

Submitted by jmdestefanoii on May 13, 2009 - 9:24am.

TL Must be a typo

The symbol "TL" in the metric system is a TeraLiter. 1 TL = 10x10^12 L. Can't imagine that was what was intended. Anyone else know what it was intended to represent? I was going to try the recipe using 1 tablespoon, but I'd love to know what it really is.

Joey D. in San Diego

Submitted by jmdestefanoii on May 13, 2009 - 9:28am.

FOUND IT!!!! A TL is

Right after posting I found it in an online German Cooking Glossary through About.com! (http://german.about.com/library/blrezepte_voc2.htm)

1 TL is a Teaspoon. The TL is short for "Teelöffel".

Mystery solved.

Joey D.

Submitted by kranieri on June 30, 2009 - 5:59pm.

chick pea bread is amazing.

chick pea bread is amazing. cant wait to try your recipe!
any ideas for transcribing it into just starter, no yeast?

my local bakery does a chickpea bread but they use hummus, added directly to the sponge the texture is extremely smooth and irresistible

Submitted by saintdennis on December 24, 2009 - 9:01am.

scales

Doc Tracy,

what the brand of scale you have???

Submitted by Doc Tracy on December 25, 2009 - 10:27pm.

scale

It's an Onyx by AWS. (I think that stands for American Weight scales). If you need to know for sure I can go check. I found it on Amazon.com.

By the way, allrecipes will convert recipes to grams/ml if you like. Just use the option on the recipes. It will also calculate for smaller/larger amounts.

I used this feature to convert my Finnish Pulla bread this AM. It was slick.

Submitted by rosefirth on March 19, 2010 - 4:01pm.

Baking without wheat flour

I recently discovered that my year long hayfever allergy is caused by eating wheat so I'm trying to avoid it. Is it possible to bake a loaf using only chickpea flour? Your recipe has half chickpea flour and half wheat flour. Also is it possible to make pasta using only chickpea flour? I'm missing bread and pasta badly so hope someone can help.