Have you ever thought about recycling chickpea water? This poor and waste ingredient can be very useful in the kitchen. Let's find out how
You know what theaquafaba? It is simply the water of conservation of the chickpeas. The next time you open a box of these legumes, do not throw it: the water can indeed be reused in the kitchen in many recipes.
Acquafaba, which one?
To obtain extraordinary results we suggest you use the water of the government chickpeas already prepared and stored in glass because it is very rich in saponins and proteins. It is almost impossible to recreate the same concentration of substances by cooking the beans at home, so choose a ready-made product of the highest quality to prepare your water-based recipes.
Preparing aquafaba in the home is possible, but the cooking water must be very concentrated and must rest for a long time. However, the result will not be the same.
As an alternative to chick-pea water, the water used to control the chickpeas can be used white, red and black beans.
How to use aquafaba
The acquafaba must be cold and it goes mounted with an electric whisk for at least 10 minutes to obtain a compact consistency.
If you want to use it in place of eggs in a sweet or savory recipe, consider 3 tablespoons of aquafaba as an alternative to each egg.
Being a thickener you will get more or less the same consistency, as well as very soft and more digestible dough.
The aquafaba then has no flavor and therefore can be added almost everywhere.
Are you curious to try?
Here 5 easy and quick recipes to prepare. Replace the eggs with the acquafaba: we assure you that you will not even notice it.
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meringues
A recipe that will leave you without words.
These meringues are vegan because the eggs are missing and they are easily prepared, above all because they do not deflate during cooking. The result will be crumbly like a real pastry meringue.
Just mount 150 ml of aquafaba with 165 g of icing sugar or finely chopped cane sugar. To this mixture you can add a little cocoa or cinnamon or food coloring.
With a pastry bag place the meringues on a plate lined with parchment paper and cook in a convection oven at 100 ° for 90 minutes and then let it cool in the oven off and slightly open.
mayonnaise
To prepare this delicate whipped mayonnaise 100 ml of aquafaba with 250 ml of seed oil adding it slowly. You can add a touch of flavor with lemon juice and a mustard spoon.
Sweet or salty mousse
With the aquafaba mounted on snow you can prepare delicious dishes mousse both sweet and savory.
For example, add a tablespoon of hazelnut cream or pistachio cream for the sweet version and of tuna, of salmon or smoked ham for the savory version and to fill crostini and canapes.
pancakes
With this recipe you can indulge yourself and create sweet and savory versions.
The basic dough of these pancakes is prepared by pouring into a bowl 280 g of flour 2, 60 g of cane sugar (for the sweet version), a teaspoon of baking powder and a half of bicarbonate. Then join 230 ml of soy milk, 20 g of sunflower oil, a teaspoon of apple vinegar and mix with a whisk. Let the dough rest and meanwhile mounted 100 g of aquafaba.
Mix the two ingredients slowly and then cook everything in a lightly oiled and very hot non-stick frying pan pouring the mixture with a ladle.
Coconut biscuits
These delicious biscuits are easy to prepare and delicious to enjoy for breakfast or a snack.
You can also stuff them two by two with hazelnut cream in the middle.
To prepare them chopped 120 g of sugar and add 50 g of flour, 80 g of milk and 150 g of coconut flour.
Separately mounted 80 g of aquafaba and add to the rest.
Form some small piles of dough and place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Bake the cookies for approx 20 minutes at 180 °.
Have you seen how many things can be done with chickpea water?
There is only now that browse our gallery for the last tips and then, whisk in hand, put yourself in the kitchen!