Chickpeas
The most useful thing in the cupboard: 8.9 g of protein and 7.6 g of fibre per 100 g cooked, and it keeps for years.
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The most useful thing in the cupboard: 8.9 g of protein and 7.6 g of fibre per 100 g cooked, and it keeps for years.
Straining roughly doubles the protein per spoonful and removes most of the lactose. That is the entire difference.
127.7 mg of vitamin C per 100 g, more than twice what an orange carries. It is also nothing more exotic than a green pepper that nobody picked.
Ninety-five percent water, which is the whole problem and the whole opportunity. Salt it and it browns; skip that and it steams.