Italian chick peas

..And here is another beautiful thing for dinner tonight. Its the chickpeas cooked in Italian way. Basically you can do plenty of experiments with food, add Italian herbs, its Italian, put turmeric chillies and garam masala, its Indian, use coconut milk and some thai curry powder and bingo,, its oriental!!!

Stuff needed::
250 gm chickpeas (soaked overnight)
3-4 small onions
3-4 medium potatoes
250 ml milk
250 ml water
salt and ground black pepper
2-3 tbsp olive oil
1-2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1-2 tsp mixed Italian herbs
1 tbsp crushed garlic or garlic paste

1. Peal the onions and potatoes, no need to cut them if they are small.
2. Heat oil in a deep vessel, add garlic paste and onions. saute for 2-3 minutes, add potatoes, salt and pepper.
3. Cook for few minutes and add chickpeas along with water.
4. Cover the vessel and cook on low flame until the chickpeas are tender.
5. Pour the milk in and Italian herbs and simmer for another 15-20 minutes.
6. Add some extra virgin olive oil on top and serve hot with rice or bread..

To make it more nutritious and colourful we can put some sauteed or boiled vegetables like beans, baby corn, broccoli or carrots in that.