Rice and chick peas in a tomato sauce

Ingredients:
2 cups of rice
1 tomato (cut)
1 can of chick peas
½ cup water for the chick peas
2½cup water for the rice
½ tsp turmeric powder (taste)
½ tsp chilli powder (taste)
½ tsp blend garlic & ginger (taste)
25 ml of oil
Salt (taste)
Coriander

Preparation:
(Rice)
-Add 2 cups of water and 1tbs of salt in the rice and cook them without covering the saucepan.
- When there is almost no water left, add the other ½ cup of water, cover the saucepan and let it cook at low flame until no more water is left.

(Chick peas in a tomato sauce)
-Take the oil and put it in the saucepan.
-Let it heat.
-Add the cut tomato.
-Add the chick peas (washed) into the saucepan along with the spices (turmeric powder, chilli powder, blend garlic & ginger, salt. Instead of all these spices you can use chana masala found in Indian stores, but you still have to add the blend garlic and ginger.)
- Cover, and let cook about 10 min.
-Add ½ cup water for the chick peas.
- Let cook for 20-25 min.
- Add coriander for some taste after it is ready.
(Stir constantly the rice and the chick peas so it doesn’t burn)


This recipe is from south Asia more precisely from India. It wasn’t really hard to prepare because I prepared it with my mother who knows how to cook it because she did it so many times. I had a few problems with the quantities of ingredients I had to add but it was pretty fun to prepare. I shared this meal with my family which means my parents and my sister. Like I said it was really fun to prepare it and it helped me spend some time with my mother which I didn’t do for long time. This meal is good for the health because the chick peas provide us with proteins, and it doesn’t pollute like factory farming. For the spices, you can usually find them in Indian grocery stores or even at Loblaws or Maxi, but I would suggest Indian stores because you are sure to find every spice you need there.

By: Pooja Patel