Looking for a super easy meal to make for dinner tonight? Well, look no further! This 5-ingredient recipe will satisfy both your taste buds and stomach, thanks to some seriously filling chickpeas, brown rice, and asparagus.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup brown rice
- Chicken (or vegetable) broth
- 15-ounce can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Bunch of asparagus
- Pecorino Romano or other full-bodied cheese
- salt + pepper to taste
How to:
Cook brown rice in chicken (or vegetable) broth as directed by rice instructions.
Cut asparagus into 1-inch pieces and steam.
Any time I steam veggies, I nuke them in the microwave in a Pyrex bowl with a lid. Sometimes I’ll add a splash of water as well as a little bit of salt and pepper, but usually I just pop the veggies in it and cook. It’s seriously the easiest way to steam veggie ever. FYI: I nuked the asparagus for this recipe for 5 minutes and it came out perfectly.
When the rice and asparagus are finished cooking, combine them with chickpeas, salt, and pepper.
Top dish with grated Pecorino Romano and serve!
Recipe makes about 4 servings.
29 Comments
I love simple recipes like this where the ingredients can be altered depending on what is in season or on hand. Did Murphy snag a bite? My pup can’t get that close without at least one lick 😉
Haha! He didn’t. He knows better, but he’ll always test me! 😉
I love chickpeas, not only their taste, but also the fact that they fill you up. What an easy and healthy dish. Thanks!
this looks so delicious! love chickpeas + asparagus!
And easy…the biggest selling point for me some nights. 😉
Throwing chickpeas in my salad is definitely one of my go to meals! I love how it’s so simple and easy!
I am on such an asparagus kick at the moment!
These are my favorite recipes! I love me some chickpeas!
Ohhh what a perfect week night dinner!! Plus, any meal with chickpeas + asparagus sounds good to me! 😀
Love simple ingredients that come together perfectly and so easy! Thanks for sharing…. can’t wait to give it a try!
Love how easy this one this is and the steam tip!
Love this idea and it’s versatility to mix and match with quinoa, black beans, different veggies, etc. and save leftovers for easy lunches!
I’ve been loving chickpeas lately! I put them on/in everything. This looks simple and delicious 🙂
Karen @karenlovestorun
This was totally my inspiration for dinner tonight”¦I subbed quinoa for the rice and roasted my asparagus. Meatless for me, a side of chicken sausage for the fiancee. Great recipe”¦yum!
I love my asparagus, and this looks amazing!!
This looks yummy. I love chickpeas!
That looks yum! I bet it would be good cold for lunch the next day too! Where is that cute white pug on the counter from?
Yum! This is exactly the type of thing I would make for a weeknight meal. No muss, no fuss – yet delicious!
That looks really yummy. We don’t have chicken brooth in England and hope that chicken stock would work the same. I love fresh Asparagus and can’t wait to give it a whirl.
Thanks for sharing-this looks so simple and tasty!
This looks so yummy and so easy. Thanks for sharing!
Looks real good & healthy!
I thought of you last night while I was making my dinner (Is that weird??). I had nothing to eat all ready to go, so I just mixed some leftover brown rice that I had with some butternut squash that I had roasted a few nights ago and mixed in 2 wedges of the Laughing Cow chipolte queso fresco cheese. It was so good!! As I was mixing it, I thought to myself, “This is a Carrots n Cake kind of meal”!
Nice! Sounds delicious!! 😄
Love asparagus! This looks so tasty and simple! 🙂
Yum! This has all of my favorite things in it, but I’ve never put them all together in this way.