Showing posts with label Carrot Rice with Chickpeas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carrot Rice with Chickpeas. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Carrot Rice with Chickpeas

Serves: 4
Yields: 10 cups

1 cup chickpeas

Overnight soak chickpeas in water.

1 tsp salt
5 cups water

Add chickpeas, salt and water to a large pan, allow it to boil, reduce the heat to low and cook for 45 minutes.

1 and 1/2 cup rice
3 cups water

Wash rice, cook rice with water.

1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tsp mustard seeds

1 tbsp urad dal
1 tbsp channa dal
1/4 cup cashews, chopped

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it starts to splutter, add urad dal, channa dal and cashews, saute till the color of the dal changes.

1/2 cup shallots, chopped lengthwise
1 and 1/4 tsp red chili flakes


Add onion and red chili flakes / serrano / jalapeño peppers, saute till the color of the onion changes.

1 bunch carrot, grated using big hole grater (2 orange, 2 purple and 2 yellow carrots)
1/4 cup water
2 and 1/2 tsp salt


Add carrots, salt, water, mix, cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the carrots are cooked.

2 cups cooked chickpeas

Add cooked chickpeas and cook for 2 more minutes.

Add cooked rice and mix well.

1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
1/4 cup dry roasted unsalted peanuts

Add chopped cilantro and peanuts and mix well.


Taste Note: Tastes AWESOME. This time, I used 4 jalapeños and it was super spicy, even after I removed all the jalapeños after cooking. Next time, I will be making this with red chili flakes