How to Use garbanzo in a Sentence

garbanzo

noun
  • Strain garbanzo beans and white beans over a bowl to catch the juices.
    chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Cooked garbanzo beans are then added to the paste and further pureed.
    Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • The gluten free bread and pizza dough is made from a mix of brown rice, sorghum and garbanzo bean flours.
    Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 30 May 2017
  • Soft garbanzo beans and rice, as well as chewy bits of beef head, reinforce the elixir.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Maqluba varies by recipe: Some add garbanzo beans, others eggplant, and some put a plate in the pot to isolate the meat from the rice.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Turn up the heat to medium, stir in the garbanzo beans and broccoli and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
    Julie Morris, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Add quinoa to a vegetable soup or toss 1/2 cup of edamame, garbanzo, or cannellini beans atop a salad.
    Theresa Shank, Rd, Ldn, Philly.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Add garbanzo beans, kidney beans, green beans, green pepper and onion.
    Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Hillary loves protein breakfasts—scrambled eggs with garbanzo beans—spiced up with lots of hot sauce.
    Capricia Marshall, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2016
  • The consomé contains soft garbanzo beans and rice, and the spicing makes the gaminess manageable.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Jeremy slurps the contents of his can, garbanzo juice dripping down his scraggly beard.
    Sarah Aswell, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Add one can drained and rinsed garbanzo (or other) beans — the liquid can be used for making vegan meringue.
    Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Lamb neck, steamed in maguey leaves, has a similar presentation: a little garbanzo-bean puree on the side, and a bright salad of greens and mint as a palate cleanser.
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Replace the garbanzo beans with black beans, lima beans, adzuki beans, or fava beans.
    Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2010
  • Combine all ingredients except garbanzo flour and oil in a large bowl and mix well.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Consider sprouting other beans, such as brown lentils, black garbanzo beans and moth beans.
    Annada D. Rathi, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The company also traded sugar from Brazil, lentil, garbanzo beans, meat, olive oil, and vegetable oil with Venezuela, the posting said.
    Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2021
  • There were boxes of apples and pears, cans of low-sodium spaghetti, peanut butter and garbanzo beans, tuna fish and diced peaches.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Young, hip servers in long aprons arrive with paper menus and puffs of warm, tiny parker-house-like potato rolls topped with bitter-sweet bee pollen alongside a punchy, bright green garbanzo and chili dip.
    Victoria Pesce Elliott, miamiherald, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Diners can request their consommé with or without garbanzo beans and even ask for specific parts of the goat, like just the ribs, neck or the head, which Garcia cuts open for customers.
    AZCentral.com, 20 July 2021
  • My pantry is always stocked with: Spanish jarred butter beans, garbanzo beans and cannellini beans.
    Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • An unassuming cazuela filled with garbanzo beans, raisins, pine nuts and ground morcilla was infused with the blood sausage’s comforting spice.
    Michael Russell, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Veggie lovers will be wowed by the Mediterranean, which tops mixed greens with tomatoes, artichoke hearts, onions, and not one, not two, but three kinds of beans: cannellini, pinto and garbanzo.
    Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Start with a shared appetizer of vegetable pakora – veggies fried in garbanzo batter – or chili paneer with cheesy cubes bathed in a spicy sauce.
    Lauren Saria, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Instead, it's made with chicken, sweet potatoes, alfalfa meal, and fiber-rich garbanzo beans.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Lentils, garbanzo beans, and barley with garlic, shallots, and harissa.
    Alyse Whitney, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Starting with 1 pound fresh in-shell garbanzo beans (or another fresh bean like romano), remove their thin outer shell.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Then came the canvas of spinach, strawberries, peas, garbanzo beans, sunflower seeds, roasted red peppers and kale.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Or stir in garbanzo beans (also called chickpeas), for a slightly firmer textural contrast and a nuttier taste.
    Casey Barber, CNN, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Actually, the garbanzo doesn’t start life as a shriveled, hard, yellow legume but as a perky little ball, ranging from the palest green to a color that resembles the flesh of an avocado.
    SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020

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