Pour contents of chickpea cans or home-cooked chickpeas into a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Drain, discarding liquid. [You can skip this step if youve just cooked your chickpeas]. Now that summers heat is keeping our range-top and oven use to a minimum, I thought you might enjoy this salad from Madhur Jaffreys _World of the East Vegetarian Cooking_. It sounds spicier than it really is. In a serving bowl, combine chickpeas with the other ingredients. Mix well and set aside, unrefrigerated, for 1 hour. Mix again. Serve cold or at room temperature. From: simmons@Texaco.COM (Bob Simmons) Fatfree Digest [Volume 9 Issue 13] July 3, 1994 Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/fatfreex.zip