How to Use garbanzo in a Sentence

garbanzo

noun
  • Strain garbanzo beans and white beans over a bowl to catch the juices.
    — chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Cooked garbanzo beans are then added to the paste and further pureed.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • Soft garbanzo beans and rice, as well as chewy bits of beef head, reinforce the elixir.
    — Associate Restaurant Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Add garbanzo beans, kidney beans, green beans, green pepper and onion.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Jeremy slurps the contents of his can, garbanzo juice dripping down his scraggly beard.
    — Sarah Aswell, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2017
  • Replace the garbanzo beans with black beans, lima beans, adzuki beans, or fava beans.
    — Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2010
  • Consider sprouting other beans, such as brown lentils, black garbanzo beans and moth beans.
    — Annada D. Rathi, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Combine all ingredients except garbanzo flour and oil in a large bowl and mix well.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Add quinoa to a vegetable soup or toss 1/2 cup of edamame, garbanzo, or cannellini beans atop a salad.
    — Theresa Shank, Rd, Ldn, Philly.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Lentils, garbanzo beans, and barley with garlic, shallots, and harissa.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Instead, it's made with chicken, sweet potatoes, alfalfa meal, and fiber-rich garbanzo beans.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The consomé contains soft garbanzo beans and rice, and the spicing makes the gaminess manageable.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Turn up the heat to medium, stir in the garbanzo beans and broccoli and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
    — Julie Morris, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Starting with 1 pound fresh in-shell garbanzo beans (or another fresh bean like romano), remove their thin outer shell.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • An unassuming cazuela filled with garbanzo beans, raisins, pine nuts and ground morcilla was infused with the blood sausage’s comforting spice.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Then came the canvas of spinach, strawberries, peas, garbanzo beans, sunflower seeds, roasted red peppers and kale.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Or stir in garbanzo beans (also called chickpeas), for a slightly firmer textural contrast and a nuttier taste.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Young, hip servers in long aprons arrive with paper menus and puffs of warm, tiny parker-house-like potato rolls topped with bitter-sweet bee pollen alongside a punchy, bright green garbanzo and chili dip.
    — Victoria Pesce Elliott, miamiherald, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Also known as chickpeas, garbanzos are high in fiber, which helps stabilize blood sugar, lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2016
  • The Sonoran version includes them, as the region is a garbanzo-growing one where the legume flourishes during the mild desert winter months.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Beans like navy, black, garbanzo, kidney, pinto, and lima beans are rich in fiber, protein, and key minerals like magnesium and potassium.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The company also traded sugar from Brazil, lentil, garbanzo beans, meat, olive oil, and vegetable oil with Venezuela, the posting said.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 16 June 2021
  • Some prebiotic foods are almonds, apples, bananas, barley, flaxseed, garbanzo beans and garlic.
    — Aaraf Adam, Essence, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Another experiment that Stibbe conducted was to grow chickpeas, or garbanzo beans, in space.
    — Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 13 June 2022
  • Next, top with non-absorbent hard vegetables such as carrot, cucumber, chickpeas (garbanzo beans), onion, beetroot (beets) and (bell) peppers.
    — Bec Dickinson, NBC News, 8 May 2017
  • Diners can request their consommé with or without garbanzo beans and even ask for specific parts of the goat, like just the ribs, neck or the head, which Garcia cuts open for customers.
    — AZCentral.com, 20 July 2021
  • Her soups are particularly popular, with choices like mushroom-miso; green chile pork stew; tomato-garbanzo-coconut; and corn chowder.
    — June Naylor, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2020
  • But the chickpea salad’s the real hero, made by Salazar from mashed garbanzo beans, paprika and vegan mayo for a spread that was cohesive, flavorful and filling.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Beans of any kind — black, red, garbanzo or pinto — are packed with a unique mix of critical vitamins and minerals, including folate, iron, potassium and magnesium.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2021
  • There are more colorful versions, like a Mexican caldo de pollo, zingy with lime, that might feature cabbage, zucchini, garbanzo beans or chunks of corn-on-the-cob — plus lots of cilantro.
    — Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020

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