Easy chickpea biryani Recipe

Have you ever had a biryani? It’s basically a curry with rice, but it’s all cooked together in the oven so the rice soaks up all of the curry goodness.

I’ve avoided making a biryani in the past because honestly, baking rice has always scared me a bit – eeeek, how much water should you use, and eeeeek, don’t you just end up with strange, crispy, roasted rice? and eeeeek, how does it ever cook properly?

(yes, I can be a bit overdramatic sometimes)

But actually, once I decided to give this chickpea biryani a go, it was really easy. You need to add what looks like far too much water – you’ll wonder how it will end up looking like anything other than a swimming pool with a few pieces of rice floating in it. But once the rice…