I'm following a recipe that calls for 200g of dried chickpeas, soaked overnight. I have two 28 fl. oz. (796 ml) cans of chick peas, packed in water.
This is made complicated by two things:
- You can't easily convert a weight measurement to a volume measurement. (What is the density of a chickpea?)
- The recipe wants me to measure dry chickpeas, and I have canned chickpeas. (How much of the weight is water?)
How much of my canned chickpeas should I use?
Best Answer
There is no exact conversion because there are so many different varieties of chickpeas or any bean types for that matter
Their water absorption rate and amount is effected by many things including how they have been stored, have they been heat treated on import, and what time of year they where grown!
My rough rule of thumb for beans in general is 2.5 ±.5 times the volume and 2 ±.5 the weight after an overnight soak
With our local chickpeas it's 2.2 times the weight after 10 hours at 20°C (on the bench)
200g should be around 440g of soaked chickpeas. 1 cup of chickpeas is around 240g, so just shy of two cups of soaked chickpeas should do it