Slow Cooker Chickpea Stew
Filling and frugal dinner recipe!
Servings - 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice, uncooked
- 1 15 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes
- 1 box chopped spinach
- 1 zucchini, diced
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 Tbsp EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
- sliced Italian Loaf
- GF Apple Muffins
Instructions
- Load all ingredients except the rice and bread into the slow cooker. Cook on high for 4 hours. Love the smell of stew brewing all day as the flavors mix and mingle!
- Boil 2 1/4 cups water. Add rice, stir, bring to boil. Cover and reduce heat/simmer 15-20 minutes.
- Serve chickpea stew over rice. And a slice of your favorite bread on the side!
Breezy says
Could you throw the rice in too, or would it soak up all the liquid?
~dawn~ says
Did you actually put the bread and muffins in the crockpot too? Or are those served with the meal?
thanks!
dawn
$5 Dinner Mom says
Breezy- Yes, you could certainly add some rice into the crockpot. The stew was not very “liqudy” so you’d have to add some water.
Dawn-
Bread and muffins on the side. I did sop up some juices with the bread.
savvysuzie says
Oh my goodness… I can’t believe I never thought to put this in the CROCKPOT!!! That’s what happens when you put frugal heads together 🙂
I’m so glad you liked it!!
The Bear and The Bug says
I would love to check out Suzie’s blog for more ideas, but the link you put up gets a “this blog has been removed” message from blogspot. Do you have a different address for her?
Amanda says
Is the Pork a part of this meal to go into the crock pot as part of the stew or is it only for your boys to eat on the side?
elva says
I never had chickpeas before, and the soup looks good from the picture above, so i gotten 4 can of chickpeas for a $1.00 that was mark down, i am going to try this tonight. I don’t have any zucchini, so I will be skipping it our of the recipe. No frozen spinach either, but I do have some can spinach I will use. wich me luck. I hope my family enjoy this!!!
Donna says
How many people does this serve?
Thanks.