5. Toss them into salads. With their reds, browns, greens, yellows and other colors, pulses are an awesome way to eat in color. Taste the rainbow and bulk up your salads by adding boiled or roasted pulses in your salad. Pulses such as cowpeas tossed with colorful veggies and dressed with a simple oil and vinegar dressing make for a delicious stand alone salad.
6. Use them as a dip. Why dip your healthy veggies in some creamy artificially flavored sauce when you can have the smooth taste of chickpeas, black beans or bambara nuts instead? Just mash the beans add some garlic and spices and voila … health with every scoop!
7. Snack on them. Hungry in between meals? Ditch the fatty, high calorie, low nutrition foods and choose nutrition packed roasted chickpeas, bambara nuts or dried peas. They contain slow digesting protein and fiber which leaves you full on protein for a longer period of time.
8. Spread them. Start your morning right with a serving of crushed pulses spread over toast. No need to make any special batches, simply use any pulse leftovers in the fridge for a high protein, high fiber replacement for eggs, bacon and other breakfast foods.
9. In lieu of wheat flour. Pound dried beans to a powder, sift the flour and replace 1 cup wheat flour with 1 cup of the sifted pulse flour. This will boost the fiber and protein content of your baked goods. Chickpeas, black and white beans are the most commonly found pulse flours but don’t be afraid to experiment with other pulses to see which work well for you.
10. Blend them. Goodbye whey protein, hello pea powder! Make your smoothies 100% vegan by using pea powder instead of whey, which is a form of cow protein.
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