This is one healthy, decadent, delicious, and unique bowl! I love that you can cook the brown rice and chickpeas together in your rice cooker, talk about easy! And this rosemary aioli is my new favorite sauce. So good!!

October 29, 2019 Updated May 2, 2021 Jump to Recipe
This is one healthy, decadent, delicious, and unique bowl! I love that you can cook the brown rice and chickpeas together in your rice cooker, talk about easy! And this rosemary aioli is my new favorite sauce. So good!!
This is one healthy, decadent, delicious, and unique bowl!
Let’s start with the brown rice and chickpeas. YES, to prepare them, you literally just put the brown rice, water, and dried chickpeas together in your rice cooker. They cook together and are finished at the same time. It’s AMAZING. Seriously, it can’t get any easier than putting the chickpeas in your rice cooker with the brown rice and forgetting about them!
I really love the texture of chickpeas when you cook them yourself—it’s pretty different from the texture of canned chickpeas, which tend to be much softer, sometimes even a little mushy. The chickpeas in this bowl have a really satisfying bite, and are firmer after cooking than canned chickpeas. I absolutely LOVE these chickpeas!
And I must say really quickly that you absolutely don’t need a fancy pants rice cooker to get amazing rice with zero effort. Here is the rice cooker on Amazon that I’ve been using for years [aff. link]. This amazing little device will in no way break the bank, but it will completely revolutionize your time in the kitchen. I can’t tell you how amazing it is to pop some dried rice (and in the case of this recipe, dried chickpeas too!) into my reliable rice cooker, and not have to babysit the cooking process like you would on the stovetop. Highly recommend!
And is it just me, or do potatoes literally make everything better? Use a creamy potato for this bowl, like Yukon gold. So decadent! Even better, if you use Yukon gold, you don’t have to peel the potatoes before cooking. Talk about a time saver.
One of my favorite ingredients, roasted tomatoes, also adds immeasurably to this bowl! Have you roasted tomatoes before? If not, your world is about to be turned upside down! These roasted tomatoes are made even sweeter with the addition of red onion, which caramelizes during the roasting. It seriously doesn’t get any better!
This Rosemary Aioli. !!!! If you follow my recipes, you are well aware that I love a good sauce! Aioli, any type, is one of my very favorites. The possibilities with aioli are just endless!
I realized the other day that I have never ever heard of rosemary aioli. And since I love rosemary and I love aioli, I decided it was about time for me to come up with rosemary aioli! If you’re a rosemary fan, you have to make this sauce! I’m not exaggerating when I say that this rosemary aioli is a bit addicting. If we have leftovers of it after this meal, I usually find myself dipping pretzels, tortilla chips, or pita bread in this aioli the next day. It’s so good and so versatile!
Ok, I’ll stop gushing. Treat yourself and your family to this delicious and healthy bowl! It’s the perfect meal to enjoy as we settle in to fall!
And PS: the lovely crisps pictured with this Brown Rice Bowl are my Ciabatta Crisps. Another quite addicting favorite of mine! Check out my super simple recipe for these crisps here!
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Ok, stop it! You’re blowing my mind here… you cook the chickpeas with the rice? That’s so clever! And those roasted tomatoes sound absolutely delicious – I haven’t had them before and I kinda want to make some right now! Thanks so much for sharing!
Such a time saver right?!!!!! Chickpeas and brown rice is my new favorite combo because of this awesome trick!!! Awww thank you! Definitely give roasted tomatoes a try, you will quite literally fall in love with the flavor and texture! I could eat them all day long haha. Thank you so much for your kind comment Katerina! Hope you have a lovely weekend ❤️