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Slow Cooker Chickpea Stew

November 13, 2008 by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom 8 Comments

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Slow Cooker Chickpea Stew

Filling and frugal dinner recipe!
Prep Time10 minutes minutes
Cook Time4 hours hours
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!

Chickpea Stew

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Filed Under: Budget Friendly Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Rice Recipes, Slow Cooker Recipes, Soup Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes Tagged With: spinach, zucchini

Comments

  1. Breezy says

    November 13, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    Could you throw the rice in too, or would it soak up all the liquid?

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  2. ~dawn~ says

    November 14, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    Did you actually put the bread and muffins in the crockpot too? Or are those served with the meal?

    thanks!
    dawn

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  3. $5 Dinner Mom says

    November 14, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    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.

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  4. savvysuzie says

    November 15, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    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!!

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  5. The Bear and The Bug says

    November 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    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?

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  6. Amanda says

    September 10, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    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?

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  7. elva says

    January 3, 2011 at 5:33 am

    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!!!

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  8. Donna says

    October 14, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    How many people does this serve?
    Thanks.

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