Costco carries this gluten-free, vegan pasta made from chickpeas!
Today I’m posting a review for a product I bought from Costco in Eastern Canada. The Banza Rotini.
I’ve reviewed a few different types of pasta from Costco I’ve reviewed are the Costco Kirkland Signature Four Cheese and Spinach Manicotti. Costco Monterey Gourmet Foods Spinach & Cheese Ravioli, Costco Rana Tagliatelle Seasoned White Chicken & Mushroom Sauce, Costco Rana Butternut Squash Ravioli and the Costco Kirkland Signature Meat Lasagna.
Location in Store
You can find this in the aisle with all the other pasta and pasta sauce at Costco. The item number is 1176875.
Taste
I absolutely love this pasta, you can’t even tell it’s gluten-free or made of chickpeas. It just tastes like regular wheat pasta. Also, it also cooks like regular wheat pasta! I cooked it for about 8 minutes and it turned out to be the perfect al-dente.
The texture is really nice, not too soft and not too hard and combines with pasta sauce like any wheat rotini. In my opinion, I don’t taste any nuttiness or chickpea flavor but if you do notice a slight bitterness or flavor coming from the chickpeas it’s easily masked by any sauce you use.
Cost
The 1.13 kilogram box of pasta costs $9.99 Canadian at Costco which isn’t bad for a gluten-free product!
Convenience
The 1.13 kg box comes with five separate 227 gram bags of pasta. I use one bag for dinner for two adults and there’s leftovers. You can use Banza anywhere you’d use regular wheat pasta! In a baked pasta dish, pasta with sauce or even a pasta salad.
Lastly, the best before date on my box of Banza is about a year from the date we purchased the box.
Nutrition
Calories
An 85 gram serving or 7/8 of a cup is 290 calories, four grams of fat, 51 grams of carbohydrates, seven grams of fibre, two grams of sugar, 17 grams of protein and 30 mg of sodium.
Ingredients
The ingredients list is short and sweet with added pea protein! This is perfect for individuals looking for a high protein, pasta that’s gluten-free, vegan and plant-based!
Scoring
Taste: 9/10
Cost: 8/10
Convenience: 7/10 (you have to cook it)
Nutrition: 9/10
Overall
Give it a try!
I love this nutritious, gluten-free pasta from Costco and will definitely buy it again if I see it in Western Canada!
Have you tried chickpea pasta? What do you think of it? Do you prefer it to regular pasta?
Please note that this review was not paid for or sponsored by any third party. This product was purchased by Costcuisine for the purpose of producing this review. The opinions in this review are strictly those of Costcuisine. Costcuisine is not affiliated with Costco or any of its suppliers. In the event that Costcuisine receives compensation for a post from the manufacturer of a product or some other third party, the arrangement will be clearly disclosed (including where the manufacturer of a product provides Costcuisine with a free sample of the product).
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I absolutely love Banza brand chickpea pasta varieties! Our local Costco doesn’t carry it sadly, so I have to pay an arm and a leg for it at a health food store. 🙁 But it’s so yummy, especially with a tomato based sauce. I tried it with a high end olive oil, garlic, lemon and parsley sauce and it wasn’t quite as good as wheat dough pasta.
The only caveat with Banza I find is, you have to eat this on a day you’re not around others and just staying in as it makes you bloated and gassy. 🙊
I like it too! Yes people can definitely react to beans/legumes.
Is the cost the same as the peanut butter cookies? @9.99.