Chickpea Coffee Substitute Recipe

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on September 1, 1977
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This Chickpea Coffee Substitute Recipe is a natural drink that tastes like coffee.

Make your own natural coffee using this Chickpea Coffee Substitute Recipe.

Chickpea Coffee Substitute Recipe

Garbanzo beans — plain chickpeas — also make a satisfactory coffee-like drink, according to Irene Potter of Neosho,
Missouri. All you have to do, Irene says, is [1] roast some chickpeas in a 300 degree oven until they’re “the color of roasted
coffee beans”, then [2] grind the brown-black nuggets, (in a blender, coffee grinder or Corona-type mill) to the consistency of
canned percolator-type coffee. (“Bigger chunks are better than a very fine grind,” Ms. Potter advises. “They leave less residue in

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