This is truly a one-dish meal. It doesn’t take long to prepare and its very nutritious and not to mention yummy. I first had this dish when I was visiting my aunt. She had soaked the chickpeas to make chole’ but the electricity went off before she could grind the masala … these were the horrible load shedding days! So she finally settled for this. We had this with curds and it tasted heavenly. I couldnt believe something so simple could taste so great.

Ingredients:

1 cup chickpeas/garbazo beans boiled.
2 cups rice soaked
4 tbsp mint leaves finely chopped
1/2 cup cilantro/coriander leaves finely chopped
1/4 cup carrot diced
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 onion sliced
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp cumin seeds
4 cloves
1 inch piece cinamon stick
1 bay leaf
6 peppercorns
salt to taste.
4 cups water for boiling the rice.
2 tbsp oil

Method:
Heat oil in the vessel you are about to cook.Add in the cloves,cinamon stick ,peppercorns and bay leaf.

When they heat up, add the cumin seeds.

Then add the onions and saute till transparent.Add the boiled chickpeas,garlic and carrots and saute for a couple of minutes.

Add the rice and mix well.Add the water and lime juice and cook on low flame till rice is almost done.

Then add the mint leaves and cilantro.Mix well and cook till rice is fully done.

Serve hot with curds.