How to Make Basic and Plain Chickpeas in VitaClay Best Instant Crock Pot?

Really simple and easy!

Here is how to make soaked chickpeas-

Ingredients:

• 1 pound dried chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
• Water
• Salt, optional
• Bay leaf, garlic cloves, onion or carrot, optional

Directions:

1. Rinse dried chickpeas in running water with strainer and add a large bowl and cover with several inches of filtered water. As the beans rehydrate, they triple in size — adding plenty of water is key. Soak the beans 8 hours or overnight. Drain and rinse. If you want beans to be soaked faster, add a boiled water in chickpeas and let the beans sit in the water for 1or 2 hours. Drain and rinse.
2. Add the soaked, drained and rinsed beans to your Vitaclay pot and cover with several inches of water. Set on Stew or Fast to cook for 40 minutes or an hour. (Note, if you use VM7800 large stock pot, add water to bean ratio as 3 to 1--3 cups water per cup of soaked beans. DO NOT cook longer than 1 hour on Fast setting. Leave it in WARM for additional minutes will further soften the beans until desired texture. Or you may set it on Slow to cook longer for 1.5 hours)
3. Now you are ready to make it into many of your favorite dishes, hummus, salad or soup, or stew...

What if I do not wish to soak, how do I make it in VitaClay Slow Cooker?

Ingredients:

• 1 pound dried chickpeas (garbanzo beans) (If you have a smaller VitaClay cooker, as the beans rehydrate, they triple in size, adjust the cooking volume accordingly to fit in your VitaClay cooker)
• Water
• Salt, optional
• Bay leaf, garlic cloves, onion or carrot, optional

Directions:

1. Rinse dried chickpeas in running water with strainer and add a large bowl and cover with several inches of filtered water. As the beans rehydrate, they triple in size — adding plenty of water is key. Soak the beans 8 hours or overnight. Drain and rinse. 
2. Add drained and rinsed beans to your Vitaclay pot and cover with several inches of water. Set on Soup or Slow to cook for 2 - 3 hours (Note, if you use VM7800 large stock pot, add water to bean ratio as 5 to 1 and use "SLOW" setting-- i.e. 5 cups water per cup of dried beans. After slow cooked, Leave it in WARM for additional time as needed which it will further soften the beans until desired texture.)
3. Now you are ready to make it into many your favorite dishes, hummus, or salad or soup, or stew...