Here's how to grow a chickpea plant for homemade hummus, chana masala, and more. Chickpeas have been grown as a food crop for at least 7,500 years. You can cultivate a chickpea plant in a pot or ...

Chickpea plant that is nitrogen-fixing and drought-tolerant blooming in a field - Sean Gallup/Getty Images Because they are primarily grown for food, you may not think of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum ...