Hi, Ray here again.
I felt it was time to try one of the wide range of vegetarian recipes from the Curry Focus website I do enjoy a good biryani and so I chose the Chickpeas and Rice recipe to see how it would compare to a biryani.
I remembered to soak the chickpeas overnight and was more than ready to cook the curry.
This is a very simple recipe to follow and basically consists of frying up the onions and spices, cooking the chickpeas and then adding the rice to cook with the absorption method (the absorption method is where you cook the rice in water in a covered saucepan over a low heat without lifting the saucepan lid).
I often have problems with cooking rice with the absorption method but this time the rice cooked perfectly.
I served the Chickpeas and Rice curry to the waiting diners and waited for their considered opinions.
The opinions were not very good. The Chickpeas and Rice curry is very yellow and is bland (some cilantro and more chilli would probably have helped to give more flavour and spice). The curry was more like a plateful of rice.
The Chickpeas and Rice curry only got a taste score of 6 out of 10 with a spice/heat rating of mild.
This could well be an ideal curry for you if you like a really mild curry, but I sure that I won’t be trying it again.