Roasted eggplant with Chickpeas

Roasted eggplant with Chickpeas

Chickpeas with Eggplant

Ingredients:

1. 1 American eggplant
2. 1 medium small onion chopped fine
3. 1 can chickpeas drained and rinsed
4. ½ teaspoon each of salt, chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, ginger garlic paste, amchur (dried mango powder) or ½ table spoon lemon juice
5. ¼ cup yogurt beaten
6. 1 tablespoon oil
7. Handful of chopped cilantro

Cut the eggplant length wise and roast it on the open flame of the stove. If you do not have a flame stove, roast the egg plant with some oil brushed on the cut side at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Let it cool a bit and peel the skin off and chop the eggplant into small pieces

Heat oil in a pan and fry the onions till they start turning brown. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute. Add the egg plant and all the spices and mix well and cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add the chickpeas and the beaten yogurt cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Garnish with a handful of chopped cilantro and enjoy with rice or roti

Chicken Chick Peas and Purple Rice

If you are a Costco member then you know black rice...the Chinese Forbidden Black Rice. I love the black rice and when you cook the regular white rice with the black rice the whole dish gets a purple color. I am assuming the black rice are actually really really dark purple colored rice.

I was looking for recipes with Chicken and Chickpeas together but I did not find any. So I made my own and yum yum yum, the family just gobbled it up.

Chicken with Chick Peas (Chicken with Garbanzo beans and Indian Spices)

Purple rice with Chicken and Chickpeas

Ingredients

1. 1 lb chicken breast cut into bite sized pieces
2. 1/2 can garbanzo beans 
3. 1 cup chopped onions
4. 3/4 teaspoon each of salt, chilly powder, turmeric, coriander powder, cumin powder
5. 1 teaspoon each of chat masala, ginger-garlic powder
6. 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice, oil

Marinate the chicken pieces with all the powder ingredients and lemon juice and set aside.
In a pressure cookie heat the oil and add the chopped onions and fry till they start becoming brown. Add ginger garlic paste an fry for a minute until the raw smell goes away. Add the chicken and fry for 5 minutes. Add 1/4 cup water and cook for 2-3 whistles. After the steam escapes, open the cooker and add the garbanzo beans and stir to combine. Simmer for 5 minutes and garnish with cilantro and serve with Purple or pulao

Purple Rice (While and black rice cooked with vegetables)

Purple rice with Vegetables

Ingredients:

1. 11/2 cup white rice
2. 1/2 cup each of purple rice, chopped carrots, peas, green beans
3. 1/2 tablespoon oil
4. 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. 4 cups water

In a rice cooker put all the ingredients and do its thing and enjoy.

If you do not own a rice cooker the here is how to cook the above rice dish

In a deep bottomed pan add the oil and add all the vegetables and fry for 5 minutes. Add 4 cups water and bring to a boil. Add salt and black rice and cover an cook for 10 minutes on medium low flame. Add white rice and cook for 20 minutes on low rice or until rice is tender. Enjoy