Interesting food find: green garbanzos!

[Jenise]

Not dried, but frozen, like peas. I added them to a crab paella last night for color and texture--great wow factor. Super delicious and useful, it's like someone invented a new vegetable.

Are they anything like gandules (green pigeon peas)? There are suddenly a lot of those (frozen) in my market and I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. Wacky cassoulet, maybe?

[Jenise]

I only know of gandules as essential to Puerto Rican rice. Arroz con gandules, which I've never had, and I thought was only prepared from dried (where they're yellow). But when I googled it just now, a greener canned option is apparently popular too.

I don't think they're similar to garbanzos. We see fresh garbanzos up here a lot, at least in the stores that cater to agricultural labor. It's a very popular snack in the part of Mexico (Jalisco, I think--if not that then another 'J' word) that a lot of local migrants hail from. They come in a very thin, papery little pods, but only one or two peas to a pod. Would take some time to create a dish using same. The frozen ones don't look like, but have a very similar sweetness and cooked texture, to fava beans.

Where did you actually find green garbanzos? Were they dried or canned?

[Jenise]

Where did you actually find green garbanzos? Were they dried or canned?

As my original post said, frozen. Like buying frozen peas.