I’m feeling a little financially strained these days, so I did some brainstorming and came up with cheap, nutritious, strange things to cook. I’ll definitely make this concoction again.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups long grain brown rice (that’s 1 1/2 cups uncooked rice, not cooked rice)
- 2 small beets (or 1 large one — I happened to have two small ones on hand)
- 1 ripe peach
- 1 can of chickpeas
- turmeric to taste
- cayenne pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Cook the rice. While it’s busy absorbing water, rinse and drain the chickpeas. Also, grate the beets with the large side of a box grater, and cut the peach into small cubes. When the rice is done, add turmeric, cayenne pepper, and salt to taste. After that, stir in the beets, chickpeas, and peaches — and voila! You’re done. No more cooking is required; if you’d prefer to heat everything through, though, that’s perfectly acceptable.
The whole concoction cost me about $3.75, and there are lots of leftovers.
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