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Chickpea Rice

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi August 15, 2011

Chickpea Rice is a delicious recipe with healthy addition of chickpeas.

This is a recipe I found that very easy to prepare & delicious in taste.
When I search for the recipe, I found it in many different methods, but finally this is how I prepared chickpea rice.
 
Check fried rice recipe before reading further.
 

Chickpea Rice Recipe

Ingredients (for 2 portions)
 
1 cup of Chickpeas soaked for about 5-6 hours
1 ½ cups of white long grained rice
1 medium sized onion sliced
¼ tsp Turmeric powder
¼ tsp cumin seed
¼ tsp Fennel seed
1 star anise (optional)
2 cloves
1 cardamom
About 1 inch of cinnamon stick
1 red chilly sliced
1 stick of curry leaf
Piece of lemon grass
Oil to fry
Salt to taste (about ¼ tsp)

Method

Wash the soaked chickpeas & keep aside to drain
Then wash rice, drain & keep aside
Prepare all ingredients.
Heat oil in a pan & fry onion first. Drain & keep it aside to use for garnishing.
Then for the heated oil, add spices other than turmeric powder. Sauté well.
Then add curry leaves & chilly pieces.
Once the curry leaves are tender,add rice & mix well.
Sauté until some rice grains start to pop up.
 
Then add drained chickpeas and mix well.
Now add correct amount of water & cook rice.
If you use a rice cooker, now add this mix to the rice cooker & add the normal correct amount of water.(1.5cups of water for 1 cup of rice or use the finger index)
Add turmeric powder & salt.
Cook rice.
Once the rice is done, garnish it with fried onions.
 
Chickpea Rice
Chickpea Rice

Serve hot with some curry & a salad.
Enjoy!!

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Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes, you will also find travel, health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is the founder of Sihela Consultants. (www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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Candi November 3, 2011 - 10:20 pm

This sounds yummy. I LOVE chick peas!

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