{"id":161494,"date":"2025-03-28T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/budget-food\/middle-eastern-inspired-pilaf-with-chickpeas\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:59:43","slug":"middle-eastern-inspired-pilaf-with-chickpeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=161494","title":{"rendered":"Middle Eastern Inspired Pilaf with Chickpeas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-1937278023713706866\">\n<p>\nI&#8217;m constantly trying to create dishes that fill our tums for pennies and taste delicious.\u00a0 There&#8217;s always rice in our store cupboard, along with spices and dried fruit, so this scrumptious pilaf was easy for me to whip up one evening when the shopping delivery hadn&#8217;t come due to bad weather.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made it a few times, and adjusted the spices to our tastes.\u00a0 Now that it has been thoroughly tested and approved by my family of hungry taste testers, I can blog the recipe.\u00a0 This Middle Eastern Inspired Pilaf has been a delicious, filling, and thrifty discovery which will feature on our Family Meal Plans in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhI66OMsg8TI3MQvz9m58DrCpymUlikuQ_jVLLcajCL279mTM8rquF0nPJ6hODHHzn72sdxQQ9IqDdPYEAn60WfTb3gS_g9cIgXshKTA8CLsU5BqhdPmXuq11l2hrO-fUTURtDv4kGw3_2_\/s1600\/pilaf+2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1067\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhI66OMsg8TI3MQvz9m58DrCpymUlikuQ_jVLLcajCL279mTM8rquF0nPJ6hODHHzn72sdxQQ9IqDdPYEAn60WfTb3gS_g9cIgXshKTA8CLsU5BqhdPmXuq11l2hrO-fUTURtDv4kGw3_2_\/s640\/pilaf+2.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Middle Eastern Inspired Pilaf with Chickpeas<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n2 Tblsp oil<br \/>\n1 onion, roughly chopped<br \/>\n1 pepper, deseeded and diced<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp ground cardamom<br \/>\n4 whole cloves<br \/>\n6 peppercorns<br \/>\n2 cinnamon sticks<br \/>\n300g uncooked long grain rice<br \/>\n400g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed<br \/>\n75g raisins<br \/>\n600ml vegetable stock<br \/>\n75g lightly roasted cashews, roughly chopped<\/p>\n<p>\nPut the oil in a large saucepan over a medium high heat.\u00a0 Cook the onion and pepper until softened.\u00a0 Add the rice and spices and cook, stirring for a couple of minutes, to enable the spices to become fragrant and to coat the rice in the oil.\u00a0 Add the chickpeas, raisins and vegetable stock.\u00a0 Bring to a boil, cover with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes until all the stock has been absorbed and the rice is tender.\u00a0 Stir through the cashews and then garnish with fresh mint.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgn33hFkXppkzXl7cn0WrGTMBgZPkHmnbPDug9L-TzH0AH_xqh0vpGeT_9ze4yI-CXSaaTkDaqx6z6RS4mWJpMyjjrR7ALLdAzNgq33xMfStcSKw3b7ew23wZa4d73bBNtFT5SjxbqpmaWW\/s1600\/pilaf.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1067\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgn33hFkXppkzXl7cn0WrGTMBgZPkHmnbPDug9L-TzH0AH_xqh0vpGeT_9ze4yI-CXSaaTkDaqx6z6RS4mWJpMyjjrR7ALLdAzNgq33xMfStcSKw3b7ew23wZa4d73bBNtFT5SjxbqpmaWW\/s640\/pilaf.jpg\" width=\"426\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m constantly trying to create dishes that fill our tums for pennies and taste delicious.\u00a0 There&#8217;s always rice in our store cupboard, along with spices and dried fruit, so this scrumptious pilaf was easy for me to whip up one evening when the shopping delivery hadn&#8217;t come due to bad weather.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[55877,12754,4015,5147,27171],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-161494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-budget-food","tag-chickpeas","tag-eastern","tag-inspired","tag-middle","tag-pilaf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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