Crispy Vegetable Pilaf with Chickpeas and Preserved Lemon Recipe
Crispy Vegetable Pilaf with Chickpeas and Preserved Lemon Recipe
This is even quicker if you have the rice left over from a previous night and ready to go. Simple with delicious flavours, this dish is full of fibre, protein, magnesium and B vitamins.
Servings
Serves: 4
Prep time
Cook time
Recipe
Ingredients
- 80g uncooked brown basmati rice
- 2 cardamom pods, crushed
- ¾ cup chickpeas
- 1 tbsp coconut oil, butter or ghee
- 25g pistachios, chopped
- 1 segment preserved lemon, thinly sliced
- ½ bunch coriander, leaves only
- Lemon juice, to serve
Method
- Cook brown basmati via absorption method with cardamom pods.
- Once ready, fish out cardamom pods and scrape out seeds into rice, discarding husks.
- Heat frypan on medium-high and add chickpeas and drizzle of oil.
- Fry chickpeas, stirring frequently until they just begin to gain some crispiness to the outside, then transfer to plate and set aside.
- Replace frypan over heat and add oil or ghee.
- Spread cooked rice over bottom of pan and leave to sit for around 5 mins until rice begins to caramelise on bottom.
- Give it a short stir and allow to sit and caramelise again.
- Add pistachios and lemon and stir though.
- Taste and add squeeze of lemon juice to taste.
- Transfer to serving plates, top with chickpeas and finish with good helping of fresh coriander leaves.
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