Chickpeas with white sauce, or with rice

CHICKPEAS WITH WHITE SAUCE, OR WITH RICE

Ingredients

400 g. dried chickpeas

3 large dry onions

120 ml of olive oil

1 bay leaf

40 g. all purpose-flour

The juice of 1 lemon

Salt

Half a square cm of red hot chili pepper

Instructions

Overnight put the chickpeas in a pot and cover them with plenty of lukewarm water.

The next morning strain the water.

Put the chickpeas in a bowl. Put in the chickpeas a handful of coarse salt

Rub with both hands the chickpeas to peel.

Rinse them with plenty of lukewarm water and strain.

Repeat the rubbing and the washing two times. 

Put the chickpeas in a pot and put water until it goes two cm above the chickpeas.

Place the pot over high heat and wait to boil.

As soon as it starts boiling decrease the heat to medium.

Add a pinch of salt, little hot pepper, the bay leaf and the onions chopped.  

Let them to simmer until they chelate.

After they become soft you can decide if you want to make all of them with white sauce, or if you want to put in the pot rice, or if you want to divide them into two parts.

You can make half of them with the white sauce and the other half with rice.

Chickpeas with a white sauce

Leave half of the chickpeas and half of their broth in the pot.

The other half put it in another saucepan.

To make the white sauce you must take some broth from the pot and to put it in a deep dish.

Leave it to cool. Pour 40 g. of flour in the dish and mix it well to dilute into the broth thoroughly.

 Pour the broth with the flour into the pot of chickpeas and mix.

Add the lemon juice.

 Put the pot over medium heat and boil the chickpeas for two min.Remove the pot from the heat.

Chickpeas with rice
Put the remaining chickpeas and their broth into the saucepan and put it over medium heat.

Let them boil for 2-3 minutes and then remove them from the heat.

Wash 100 grams of rice and pour it into the saucepan with the chickpeas.
Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir well to prevent rice from sticking.

Leave the rice to boil about 10 minutes, or as long as it is necessary to soften.

Put a tablespoon of the food in a small saucer and taste it. If you don’t like its taste, you should correct it.

Add little more salt or some lemon juice.