Black Chick Pea Curry

I tried a black chickpea curry this weekend (made it on Sunday) and it is delicious.  You can find black (really dark brown) chickpeas in most Indian markets.  There is one in downtown Silver Spring (across the street from the Greyhound bus terminal on Fenton Street).  I have included the recipe.  I did not use a pressure cooker but put some sea vegetable in the cooking water and it still took a longer time than the lighter colored chickpeas but they are very tasty and as you can see below, good for you.

Indian Super Market 

8107 Fenton Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910-6702(301) 589-8417 ‎
Most garbanzo beans found in the grocery (especially canned garbanzos) are cream-colored and relatively round. This type of garbanzo bean is called the "kabuli-type." Worldwide, there's a far more common type of garbanzo bean called the "desi-type." This second type of garbanzo bean is about half the size of cream-colored type we're accustomed to seeing in the grocery, and it's more irregular in shape. The color is also different - varying from light tan to black. Researchers have recently determined that many of the antioxidants present in garbanzo beans are especially concentrated in the outer seed coat that gives the beans their distinctive color. Darker-colored "desi-type" garbanzo beans appear to have thicker seed coats and greater concentrations of antioxidants than the larger and more regularly shaped cream-colored garbanzos that are regularly found at salad bars and in canned products. Of course, it is important to remember that antioxidants can be found in both types of garbanzo beans and you'll get great health benefits from both types. But if you have previously shied away from darker-colored or irregularly-shaped garbanzo beans, we want to encourage you to reconsider and to enjoy all types of garbanzo beans, including the darker-colored and irregularly-shaped ones.

Here is a link to the youtube video of the two women cooking the peas and the recipe:

http://showmethecurry.com/daalsbeans/kala-channa-black-chick-pea-curry.html

Recipe under video: