Indian-style rice with chickpeas
Indian-style rice with chickpeas

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I go to Indian restaurants often and it definitely rivaled the chana masala I've had there. There was enough sauce that I probably could have added another can of chickpeas and it would have still been fine. I often make Indian curries using chickpeas, but this recipe added a couple tsp of peanut butter, which I thought sounded really interesting.

Indian-style rice with chickpeas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Indian-style rice with chickpeas is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook indian-style rice with chickpeas using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Indian-style rice with chickpeas:
  1. Get 1 onion
  2. Prepare 1 pepper
  3. Make ready 1 clove garlic
  4. Take 2 tbsp oil
  5. Take 1-2 tbsp curry paste (I use tikka masala)
  6. Take 1/2 vegetable stock cube (or a pinch of salt)
  7. Prepare 190 g basmati rice
  8. Make ready 1 tin chickpeas
  9. Take 1 handfull of raisins
  10. Get 500 ml water

Research shows that eating chickpeas can help with weight management, regulate glucose and insulin, and prevent heart disease. Discover more recipes with these ingredients. Rinku Bhattacharya is a creative Indian cooking teacher and writer, who began teaching Indian cooking almost a decade ago, to share the culture and home flavors of her native India. Quick and easy, Indian chole pulao is prepared with chickpeas and rice.

Instructions to make Indian-style rice with chickpeas:
  1. Chop the onion in small pieces and cut the pepper. Finely chop the garlic. Fry onion, peppers and garlic in the oil in a saucepan until the onions are soft.
  2. Add the curry paste and keep frying for another minute.
  3. Add the remaining ingredients and give it a good stir. Leave to simmer on low heat for 15 minutes (with lid on).
  4. Take off the heat and leave for 10 minutes to absorb most of the water (it's meant to be a bit sticky). Serve as a side or a main with some mint yoghurt (recipe on my page) and naan bread. Enjoy!

This is a delicious and healthy one-pot vegetarian meal from India. Sometimes, the term chana is used interchangeably with chole, although the former term actually refers to brown chickpeas, as opposed to the white ones. Fruits and Veggies Matter Child Recipe Cards by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, public domain government resource—original source of recipe. Indians eat rice with many meals. Pay careful attention when preparing this recipe to discover which spice causes the rice to turn yellow.

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