- I will say the entire place smells like beans.
So, I'm assuming beans are involved.
Or you've just been farting up a storm in here.
- No!
(laughing)
Hey, everybody, what's up?
Welcome to my apartment.
We are, of course, still working from home right now,
so this will be yet another episode of Doing Our Best.
I'm really excited 'cause today, we're gonna be doing
a recipe that I think's a little weird.
I know, go figure on the show, something's weird.
So, today, what we're gonna be making
is edible chocolate chip cookie dough
with chickpeas.
Yay!
This is something I've seen floating around the internet
and it's something I've always wanted to try
because chickpeas are filled with protein
and other good stuff.
All right, so without further ado,
let's dig into this recipe.
Let's talk chickpeas now.
Let's called this Chickpea Talking Corner.
Chickpeas come in two ways.
You can get them precooked, canned or boxed.
Or you can get them dried.
If you have dried chickpeas, okay, cool.
Take your chickpeas, put 'em in a pot,
cover them with water and boil them for about five minutes.
And then let them soak for about an hour.
If you're using canned chickpeas,
cover them with water,
and put about two teaspoons of lemon juice in there
and let that sit for about 10 to 20 minutes.
This should help to pull the canned
bean juice flavor out of there.
The first thing we wanna do is peel the skins off.
It's really easy to do.
It's not as tedious as it may sound.
The skins usually just pop right off.
It actually reminds me of when I was in elementary school
and I used to put glue all over my hands and let it dry
and then peel the glue off.
So, if you can like think of it like that,
it's really fun.
When I said it wasn't too tedious,
maybe that was being generous.
It takes a little while,
but you know, again, think of the glue thing
and it's totally fun.
It's even relaxing.
I'm gonna dump these out here.
It's really easy to do.
Just pop right off.
This is gonna take a while.
(laughing)
This is gonna take a little while.
It's totally fine.
It's even relaxing.
That's okay, we got time, right?
We got nothing but time.
It's really fun.
I feel like there has to be an easier way.
I'm gonna try to shake a few of 'em out,
see if that works.
Like garlic peels, you can usually shake 'em
and they loosen.
That didn't do anything.
I'm gonna see if I can find any tips
to do this in bulk a lot faster than this.
Be right back.
So, what we wanna do is just cover them with a towel
and just slowly massage them
and give 'em a good rub down.
All right, let's see.
Yeah, nice.
These look great.
So, now, some of the skins are just loose in here.
You can just toss those away.
Most of them, if the skins haven't come off completely,
they're very loose on the chickpea,
so you can just finish the job.
Okay, that took a long time.
I thought that was going to be faster,
but that's okay.
And now, what I'm gonna do is add chickpeas,
two teaspoons of coconut oil,
and one teaspoon of lemon juice,
and I'm gonna blend that up.
All right, now we're gonna add
almost all of our other ingredients
except for the chocolate chips.
And then we're gonna blend that up too.
Add some dark brown sugar and some granulated sugar.
Almond meal or almond flour.
Baking soda.
Vanilla extract.
And we're gonna blend that up.
(whirring)
Check that out.
She's lookin' pretty promising.
It really has the texture of cookie dough.
It's not like grainy or anything like that.
It's very smooth.
Finally, what we're gonna do,
the moment you've all been waiting for
is we're gonna add three quarters of a cup
of chocolate chips,
'cause if we're gonna do cookie dough,
let's do chocolate chip cookie dough.
Let's mix that up.
We just wanna fold these chocolate chips
into our cookie dough.
(beep)
♪ Do you believe in chickpea dough ♪
I feel like she just has to come out.
All right, we're all done.
So, now I'm gonna cover this up,
and I'm going to put it in the fridge for about an hour.
You can also put it in the freezer for like 30 minutes
if you want to.
I'm just gonna put it in the fridge.
Be back soon.
Okay, so the cookie dough has been in the fridge
for an hour, and apparently in that hour, it got dark.
So...
Again, Doing Our Best.
Okay, let's try this thing.
It looks like cookie dough.
(upbeat music)
I'm feeling a lot of things.
It doesn't taste like cookie dough.
It tastes like healthy-ish junk food.
It looks like cookie dough.
But it doesn't taste just like it.
But it tastes good.
If you're looking for something
that's a good source of protein
and can kinda hit the sweet notes for you,
tickle your sweet tooth, this is a good option.
But I have no clue what Arie is gonna think of this.
He doesn't like beans.
I'm a little nervous.
This one's a thinker.
I mean, I can't stop eating it.
Let's let him try this.
I'm super, super intrigued to see what he thinks.
All right, come on in.
♪ Tall and thin and young and handsome ♪
♪ The boy from Ipanema goes ♪
- You're cute.
- Oh, you're a beautiful woman.
- Well, see if you still think that
after I give this to you.
Ta-da!
- (gasp) Oh my God.
- Cookie dough!
- Two treats in a row?
You keep plying me with sweets.
It smells like cookie dough.
I will say the entire place smells like beans.
So, the entire kitchen smells like beans.
So, I'm assuming beans are involved.
Or you've just been farting up a storm in here.
- No!
- Guess someone loves to toot.
- No!
I do not.
- But we love her.
I love her still.
That said, apart from the smell of beans
that's purveying the area,
this smells like cookie dough.
♪ Come with me and you'll ♪
Willy Wonka.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- Mm okay.
At first it tasted just like cookie dough,
but then that kind of bean flavoring,
that earthy, whatever,
I don't know what the ingredient is
but whatever it is, it came through.
- The ingredient is beans.
- Is it beans?
- Chickpeas.
- Chickpeas!
Protein, that's good.
It makes me feel better about this.
I love a good hummus.
I think maybe in my mind
'cause I knew that beans were involved
that I was tasting it,
because at first, I don't taste it,
then, there it comes.
It's not bad, though.
Texture, the texture is also
the texture is spot on.
So, that's what gives it a nice rating.
It's not bad.
I would give this a nice solid,
I'm trying to think how you say 7.3 in Portuguese.
(speaking Portuguese)
I don't think that's it at all.
(laughing)
I made up a language.
- You make that up?
- Yeah.
I definitely did.
7.3 out of 10.
I'm trying to be healthier.
So, if I were gonna indulge in something unhealthy,
I prefer something like the brownies.
The vegan brownies you made.
Separate video.
All the stuff you've given, I would eat again,
'cause most of them taste good
except that watermelon.
- Thank you, sweet man.
♪ I been to cities that never close down ♪
♪ From New York to Rio and old London town ♪
♪ But no matter how far ♪
♪ Or how wide I roam ♪
♪ I still call Australia home ♪
- Why are you singing that song?
- It's a good song.
- Australia has nothing to do with this.
- Wolverine.
- [Merle] I love you.
- [Arie] I love you, sweetie.
- [Merle] Thank you.