Features:

  • Call them what you want: Chickpeas, Garbanzo Beans or Ceci Beans - but you will fall in love with our Washington State grown beans.
  • Field Traced (Identity Preserved) - each bag comes with a code you can enter on our website to identify the field we grew it in and harvest date.
  • We are proud of being Certified Kosher Parve, Non-GMO Project Verified, Food Alliance Certified and carrying the quality seal from the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council.
  • Our food products are NOT Irradiated (an accepted practice that exposes your food to radiation for sterilization). Our Garbanzo Beans will sprout!
  • Our packaging is green - the 5 LB option is bagged in Jute, completely re-useable!
I love this company!!!

This is my second order from Palouse Brand and I love the company and the products. I recently moved from Asheville NC which has multiple options for food co-ops to an area in PA where that is no longer accessible. The local health food store has a bulk discount but it has been cheaper to order through Amazon. As someone who likes to support small businesses and has been a co-op member I was not thrilled about this development. I was so pleasantly surprised by getting an thank you email from Palouse Brand. I thought that is was most likely an auto-generated response but it was still a nice touch. I responded with my hesitance of purchasing from Amazon. I got two quick and personal responses, one wanting to know how my bread turned out. I have now purchased all of the bulk grains and legumes that they offer. The packaging is great. I love that there are options and discounts depending on my bulk needs. The major advantage that they hold over my co-op experience is that I bought 15 pounds of wheat berries and they were three different wheat varieties. I blended all three and am now making superior bread without needing to commit to 75 pounds of wheat berries that would have been the bulk discount requirement at the co-op to achieve the same bread. The garbonzo beans are fantastic. I have had issue in the past with garbanzo beans being so dried out that even after two days of soaking they still take hours to cook. These I soaked one day and they took about 1 hour. I ate them cooked right out of the pan and made a batch of hummus. My only compliant would be that they don't have a 25 pound option. I would definitely buy the garbanzos in that size.

Chick Pea Surprise.

When I first opened the nice burlap bag that these beans are packed in, I was very disappointed. I am a "Beaner." A eater of beans not the other kind of Beaner. After college I lived in a commune where most of the people were vegetarians. We cooked beans or legumes from the hard state in pressure cookers. I can cook beans like these in 55 minutes (without over night soaking!) I eat a lot of legumes and especially Garbanzo or Chick Peas which are about my favorite, just perfect right out of the kettle. Ok, back to the review; When I opened the bag I saw small, irregular, dried up looking, chick peas. What a bummer I had 15 pounds of them! My ever so tolerant and patient wife said; "look at all the good things about these beans as advertised on the amazon listing and the bag even has a link showing a GPS of the field that the beans were grown in!" Why would the grower go to all this trouble, let's give them a try." After a bit of research on Garbanzo Bean "types" we found that the kind of bean shipped looked just as it should and it was packaged just lest than a year ago. The next day, I measured 1 cup of dry beans to 3.5 cups of water in my pressure cooker for 55 minutes, no salt, no spices. These Chick Peas are very, very good, sweet, meaty and a nice hint of the mother earth..... YUM! I don't write many of these reviews (besides who cares) except when I am surprised.

The best hummus I have ever made

I cooked these in my Instant Pot and made hummus with them the first time out. The best hummus I have ever made. I saved the cooking liquid and reduced it to get aquafaba, and then made a vegan chocolate mousse with it. These beans are fresh, right out of the bag I could smell the freshness. They cook up plump and beautiful. My only negative about Palouse is that they don't have every kind of bean I love to eat because I'd buy them all. Dried beans can be a crapshoot to get good ones that aren't sandy, dirty, have lots of pebbles in them when you wash and sort, or deadheads that don't cook, but stay hard. I had none of these problems. I highly recommend these.

I got this GREAT email from the Producer of this product...

To the writer of the informative email (the one in the green jacket), I wish to say that I am really very happy with this product. I thank you for the informative email that arrived in my inbox just hours after delivery of the product (I bought chickpeas). I picked these because they were KOSHER. I'm not Jewish, but I think that there is a level of inspection for KOSHER products that other products don't get. I don't always trust the Organic label. I did not realize what non-irradiated meant for the pea. I basically understand the concept, however, I did not know that I would be able to sprout these (I may try that) and I didn't know that it affected the lifespan of storage. Since I live in the desert, storing in a dry place is no problem. It's the COOL, dry place that is a little tough. I actually plan to pressure can these and store them that way. I love hummus!! I like the fact that I supported a family farm (I didn't know that when I bought them) and I intend to continue that support by adding this to my Subscribe and Save order. Thank you for caring enough about my health to go through all of these extra steps to protect it. We need more food producers who still care about the customer and the product, not just the bottom line ($$$). The email and the family picture are great. Keep that!

Superb Quality, Easy to Sprout, Low Price!

1st, these are great quality: Grown in the USA Non-Irradited (this helps with being able to sprout) Field Traceable Non-GMO AND...so easy to Sprout. I wanted to get beans that I could start sprouting and after much research, Palouse Farms presented a easy source and at a great price, too! I had almost 100% sprouting in the beans. To sprout, just soak overnight, drain and then I leave them in a colander. I use a ceramic one, standard size. Then set it on a plate to catch any drips, cover with a cloth, and I set it into a pantry/closet where it's dark and a stable temperature. From what I have read, the cooler it is, the longer the sprouting process takes. For me, in 24 hours, I had decent sprouting already. I gave it one more day to let them grow a little more. Rinse and drain a couple times a day while sprouting (although I forgot to do this and they still sprouted for me with this short sprouting time) Once sprouted, cook as normal to the consistency you want. I make a large batch, then cook and freeze some to have them handy later as we use a lot of beans weekly. I'll try out the lentils from Palouse next, from other reviews, looks like they also are good for sprouting.

The Best

My wife and I bought a James Beard award winning cookbook called Zahav which contains Israeli recipes. We decided to try the hummus recipe and wanted to use nothing but the best of ingredients. I'll still used canned for things like salads but I will never make hummus with anything but these beans. I will also never make any other hummus recipe but the one from the Zahav cookbook. It is a life changer.

Best I've tried so far.

Best I've tried so far. These Garbanzo beans are a step above the other brands that I have tried in the past and way better than canned. I make Hummus all the time. I prefer to use dried or fresh Garbanzo beans/Chic Peas whenever possible as opposed to canned. I've tried a few different brands and lately I have focused on buying as many Non-GMO'd products as I can. As soon as I opened the bag I noticed a difference in the size and shape of the bean compared to other brands (see picture). When I soaked them overnight they grew larger in size than the other brands as well. I then pressure cooked them exactly the same way I do all the time and was very pleased with them when cooked. Very consistent cooking and they looked great. I shuck them before I make my hummus and this can be a real pain at times because of inconsistent cooking. These however came out very consistent and the shucking was much easier. Sometimes with inconsistent cooking you will get some that are very firm and others that are mushy. These have good consistency and only a very small portion of them were soft and non were mushy. The flavor is excellent also. After two batches I'm very pleased with this product. I'll certainly buy again and again.

Great Garbanzos

Upon receiving the product, I started a batch soaking to get them ready to cook. I soaked the beans overnight and cooked them up in the pressure cooker (after watching Good Eats episode on garbanzos/chickpeas). I am very happy with the quality of the beans. The beans cooked up tender and tasty. I used some in a soup, added some to a couple of salads and blended the rest up to make hummus. Each time I reflected on how much better I liked them over canned beans (even when cooked unsalted) and the last batch of dried chick peas I bought in the store. The burlap bag is kind of cool and the beans are in a plastic bag inside of that. Out of four cups of measured uncooked beans, I only encountered two beans that did not cook up soft. I will buy these again.

Delicious beans, real winner is the bag

We buy these almost explicitly for one thing: hummus. Ever since we started prepping our beans in a pressure cooker for hummus, we have been crazy about how fast and creamy we've been able to get this delicious food to be. And now it only makes sense to buy the beans in bulk! That being said, the real prize here is that reusable jute sack, which you will notice the seller has cleverly advertised as such. The options for how you're going to reuse this bad boy are endless: * Snack bag for your home made granola * Travel case for your 100% all natural locally sourced merkin * Swim cap * Nut milk bag * Ice crushing bag for making Moscow Mules * Feed bag for your free range BLW toddler I personally chose to make a clothespin bag for when I'm drying my cloth diapers. The possibilities are ENDLESS.

Best tasting garbanzo beans via pressure cooker method

Absolutely the best tasting garbanzo beans I was ever been able to buy in US. I prepare them differently than what they recommend using a pressure cooker: 1. Wash 1 Cup beans in cold water. Discard "floaters" 2. Soak the beans overnight in 3 cups of water with one teaspoon of salt. 3. Strain, put in a pressure cooker (I use a Kuhn Rikon Stainless-Steel Pressure Cooker, 5 qt). Add a fresh 3 cups of water with one teaspoon of salt. Bring pressure to first ring. Cook for 8 minutes (9 minutes for older beans). Use natural release (=take off heat & let the pressure drop slowly until it can be opened). If you feel the beans are too hard just let them stay in the hot water longer, and they are too soft cook them less next time.

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