Yellow Gram Chick Peas

Mature chickpeas can be cooked and eaten cold in salads, cooked in stews, ground into a flour called gram flour ,ground and shaped in balls and fried as falafel, fermented to make an alcoholic drink similar to sake, stirred into a batter and baked to make farinata, cooked and ground into a paste called hummus or roasted, spiced and eaten as a snack.