Whole wheat Cicerchia flour

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The Cicerchie are among the oldest legumes most consumed by our ancestors: it seems they already ate it in Mesopotamia more than 8000 years ago. This legume, whose smell and taste is a good mix of broad bean and pea, was the food of the peasants when they had nothing else to feed. With the abandonment of the countryside, the cicerchia also risked disappearing, a memory of a period of hunger and poverty.

Chickling flour can be used to prepare desserts, bread and to bread fry. Chickling flour is really versatile and tasty.

The resulting flour is rich in fiber and protein, B vitamins, vitamin PP, calcium and phosphorus.

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