چلو آب‌نخود و گندی or Persian-Jewish style Chickpea soup with TVP-gondi balls

In Farsi that says "Chelo Ab-Nokhod and Gondi" and it is a play on a traditional dish called Ab-Gusht which translates to Water-Meat, Nokhod means chickpea. Chelo means rice.

Gondi are a traditional Persian-Jewish soup dumpling traditionally made with ground meat, chickpea flour, cardamom, and lots of pepper. I replaced the ground meat with TVP and they came out just how I remember them.

I added more soup to the bowls after taking the pictures.