Chickpea and Tomato Rice:Recipe

I love chickpeas in everything whether its rice, gravy or salad.Chickpeas has a lots of advantages but the main is that it helps lower cholesterol and improves the blood sugar levels. For diabetic patient it is a great food. If it is combined with rice then it provides fat-free high quality proteins.

Ingredients

• 4 cups boiled rice(not fully done)
• 1 cup boiled chickpeas
• 1 cup tomatoes cut into cubes
• 1 cup fresh coriander
• 1 cup fried onion
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 tbsp garlic ginger paste
• 1 tbsp cumin seeds
• Salt to taste
• 2 tbsp oil

Method

• Heat the oil in a pan and fry garlic ginger paste, when it changes the color then add bay leaves and cumin seeds.
• Now add chickpeas and cook it for 1-2 minutes as chickpeas are already boiled and done.
• Add little water and salt, add tomatoes and rice in chickpeas mixture.
• In the end add coriander and fried onions and cover the pan and cook it on low heat for 5- 10 minutes.
• Serve hot.

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