Chickpeas and Rice

"This is a recipe that I got from a vegetarian cookbook and made a few modifications to. We have fallen for this dish and now make it a few times a month. My two year old also loves it. We tried it out on some non-vegetarians and they all loved it."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cook water, rice, thyme, and bay leaf and set aside.
  • Heat olive oil and half of the butter in a skillet and then add chickpeas.
  • When chickpeas start to lightly brown (about 5 mins) add parsley and the sun-dried tomatoes and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
  • Add oregano, basil, salt, and pepper and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and mix rice and chickpeas together until rice is a golden color.
  • Mix in remaining butter (cubed) and Parmesan cheese.

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Reviews

  1. So delicious! I halved the butter and oil, and I still adore this dish.
     
  2. Made this last night. I added a roasted red pepper and zucchini. I also used fresh oregano. It was very yummy and will now be added to our dinnier list as it was easy to make and very easy to alter.
     
  3. Very good!!! I made this just as written and next time ---and there will definately be a next time --- I will add extra sun-dried tomatoes. Thank you for posting!
     
  4. This is absolutely delicious! I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this dish.
     
  5. We loved this as a main dish and plan to have it often. The recipe is a sturdy and flexible base. I did not have parsley, so used chopped green onions and arugula; chopped unseeded fresh tomato instead of sun dried (which I didn't have and don't much like). Next time I'll probably lay in some parsley but would like to try spinach, as some of the reviewers mention, and other greens in the future. Oh, and we added a generous sprinkle of lemon juice on each serving just before eating; really added a nice, fresh pop. Thank you for this very fine recipe!
     
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Tweaks

  1. This was excellent. We made it with olive oil instead of butter, substituted a little pasta sauce for our lack of sun-dried tomatoes, and used two cups' worth of brown rice instead of the basmati. We were also short on the parsley but I think it was as good that way. We also stirred in parmesan cheese on our plates since I have to be careful about my saturated fat; this way I could cut back on mine. The only other thing I would change for next time is using less pepper.
     
  2. What a great recipe! It's so easy and loaded with flavor. I've never fried chickpeas, and I loved the resulting texture and flavor. The fact that your two-year-old loved it was a major selling point, and my three-year-old scarfed it down (which almost never happens - so THANKS!). I made this exactly as directed but used regular white rice instead of basmati. This has earned a plastic sleeve in my "Favorites" binder. Thanks for a keeper! :-)
     
  3. As a recent college grad with a very limited budget, I'm always on the lookout for delicious recipes that can essentially come from the staples in my pantry. this totally fits the bill. I used brown basmati rice, feta instead of parm, and roasted some cherry tomatoes and onion in the oven instead of using sun dried tomatoes. amazing!
     
  4. Wow, this recipe is very unique and wonderful. I used brown rice, even though I know it would be even better with basamati. :) I used fresh spinach in place of the parsley, added a clove of minced garlic when I added the spinach and tomatoes, and cut back the butter a bit, but otherwise made it as directed. Oddly, I found it a little salty. I used unsalted butter and checked that there was no salt added to my sun-dried tomatoes, so I'm not sure why it came out salty, but I guess I'll skip or cut way back on the salt in the recipe next time. Otherwise, it was really perfect.
     
  5. This is a great recipe! I used fresh tomatoes (lack of sundried in the house) and spinach instead of parsley (I hide spinach in everything!) and it was AMAZING!
     

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