Looks really good :) Can I ask how you soak your chick peas? I have soaked all sorts of peas for well over 9 hours and they are soft but not the right kind of texture, They're not hard either, I just know they aren't what they should be. I also feel pretty sick after eating them.

Thanks! Of course - when soaking chick peas, I just put them in a large bowl of cold water, cover with film and place them it in the fridge overnight. Sounds strange that they didn't have the right texture after you soaked them, I don't think you can do anything wrong really - perhaps the chick peas were somehow bad?

Thanks :) I left them in a pot with a cover in cold water too. I left them in room temperature though, not a fridge. I don't even put in salt as it says not to on the packaging. I used a wide variety of peas, kidney beans chick peas and other mixes of peas for soups but most of them came out with a noticeably wrong texture. I remember a few months ago I soak kidney beans and I threw them back up :( They were new too. I can try again. I'll buy a cheap bag and put them in a fridge while soaking. I'm a bit confused about it, are they suppose to have the same texture as the tinned chickpeas? They are very soft.

Okay, room temperature should be fine too. They are not supposed to be completely soft after soaking, they need to be boiled first - but the tinned chickpeas are often pre-boiled.

I have not tried using chickpeas for soup, but when I use them for salads or hummus, just soaking them overnight and cooking them in stock for about an hour works well! Hope it works out for you :)