Achari Chana Pulao
Tasty chickpeas rice dish is a good change for lunch. Serve it with salad and raita to enjoy its taste more.
Ingredients
- Chickpeas 1 cup
- Apna Canola Oil 1 cup
- Rice 3 cups
- Onion 4 (finely sliced)
- Lemon 4
- Green chilies 8 (sliced)
- Bay leaves 8
- Mint 1 bunch (sliced)
- White cumin 1 tsp (roasted and ground)
- Brown sugar 1 tsp
- Nigella seeds 1 tsp (roasted and ground)
- White vinegar 1 tbsp
- Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
- Red chili flakes 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds 1 tbsp (roasted and ground)
- Black pepper ½ tbsp (crushed)
- Salt to taste
Cooking Directions
- Boil soaked chickpeas.
- Add finely chopped mint, salt, green chilies and white vinegar to rice.
- Boil rice until 1/3 cooked.
- In a cooking pot, add some apna canola oil and sauté onion.
- In half of the sautéed onion, add ginger garlic paste, lemon juice, chick peas, red chili flakes and mustard seeds and sauté.
- Now put remaining green chilies, brown sugar and curry leaves.
- Grease the bottom of a separate pan add a layer of half of the rice.
- Then add a layer of chickpeas.
- Add lemon juice and mint.
- Spread the remaining rice and top with mint leaves and squeeze the juice of a lemon.
- Cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Now dish out and sprinkle the fried onions and serve with the yogurt.
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