These Chipotle Chickpea Bowls are the perfect meal prep bowls for freezing. A delicious tomato-based spicy chickpea stew with rice.
Course lunch, meal prep
Cuisine International
Keyword Chickpea Stew, Chipotle Chickpea Bowls
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 4bowls
Calories 371kcal
Ingredients
1cupbasmati rice
1yellow onion
2cloves garlic
3chipotles
2cupscooked chickpeas
14oztomato polpa
5ozbaby spinach
sea salt
pepper
Instructions
Cook rice in the Instant Pot or in a pot on the stove as instructed on the package.
Finely chop onion and garlic.
Preheat a large lidded pan over medium heat and once hot add a drizzle of oil and stir fry chopped onion and garlic as well as chipolte chilis. Break the chilis apart a little.
Once the onion is translucent, add chickpeas and tomato polpa and season everything with sea salt and pepper to taste. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and let simmer for 15 minutes.
Add baby spinach and stir until the spinach wilts.
Divide rice and chickpea stew among 4 meal prep containers and store in the fridge for up to 4 days or freeze for up to 3 months.