Chickpea Rice Recipe
Learn the step-by-step chickpea rice recipe by reading the post. It is a scrumptious Indian-style one-pot chickpea and rice dish.
Yield: 2 people
Materials
- 1 cup Basmati Rice
- ⅔ cup Chickpea or Garbanzo Beans
- 2 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
- 1 no Onion, large finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Paste
- 1 no Tomato, small finely chopped
- ⅔ teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
- ½ teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 no Bay Leaf
- 1 inch Cinnamon
- 1 no Cardamom
- 2-3 no Clove
- 1 teaspoon Ghee optional
Instructions
- Wash and soak chickpeas in water over night or for at least eight hours if you're cooking them from scratch at home.
- After that, place them in a pressure cooker with roughly 3 cups of water, some salt, and cook for 6-7 whistles or until the chickpeas are tender.
- Heat oil in a pot and add whole spices into it.
- After few moments oil become fragrant, at this point add chopped onions and cook until they become translucent.
- Add ginger paste and sauté the ginger paste until the raw smell is gone.
- Now add the dry spice powders including salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder, and red chilli powder. Mix well
- Next add chopped tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes turn soft.
- Add cooked chickpeas and combine well with spices.
- After that add washed and cleaned uncooked rice and sauté for couple of minutes.
- Add required water to cook the rice and adjust the salt. Cover the pan with a lid. Allow to cook under medium to high heat until all the water is absorbed and rice is cooked.
- After 15-20 minutes remove the lid and check if the rice is cooked and water is dried up. Switch off the gas and allow to rest it for another 5 minutes. If you want you can add ghee on top.
- Gently fluff the rice. You can garnish with coriander leaves. Chickpea rice is ready to serve.