Vegetable Chickpea Curry
Vegetable Chickpea Curry features sprouted chickpeas combined with broccoli, potatoes, and spinach cooked in a spiced coconut milk base. The curry offers a balance of earthy vegetables and mildly spicy aromatic flavors derived from cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf, red chili, turmeric, and coriander powder. Texturally, it blends firm parboiled chickpeas and potatoes with tender greens to create a hearty dish.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sprouted chickpeas you can soak chickpea over night and use that as well, if you don't have sprouted chickpeas, channa
- 1 medium broccoli
- 3 potato
- ½ bunch spinach palak
- 2 onion finely chopped
- 2 tomato finely chopped
- 2 green chilies slit
- 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
- 1 tablespoon red chili powder adjust as per spice preference
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder roasted
- 3 cloves
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cup coconut milk thick
- salt to taste
- 2 teaspoon neutral cooking oil generic cooking oil
- Coriander leaves fresh, for garnish
Instructions
How to make sprouted chickpeas
- Rinse chickpeas well. Soak in enough water over night.
- Next morning, drain water and transfer soaked chickpeas into a white cotton cloth(cheese cloth or muslin cloth) and cover it loosely and set it aside for a day or 2.
- Sprinkle some water over the cloth a few times as required whenever the cloth turns too dry and shake the sprouts so they spread evenly and starts to sprouts uniformly. The moisture helps the sprouts to grow well.
Get those vegetables ready -
- Par boil sprouted chickpeas, potatoes separately with pinch of salt.
Making the curry -
- Heat oil in a wok. Add cloves, cinnamon stick and bay leaf. Add finely chopped onions along with green chilies and fry till onions turn translucent.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and cook till raw smell of the paste is gone.
- Add finely chopped tomatoes and cook until tomatoes turn soft and mushy.
- Add the spice powders, mix.
- Add the par boiled chickpeas and potatoes, sauté for about 3 minutes. Add the broccoli and sauté again. Add salt to taste.
- Pour about 1 cup water (you'll need to adjust the amount of water, start with half cup first and then add little by little as needed) bring it to boil. Cover and continue to cook until the vegetables and chickpeas are cooked fully and the curry reaches thick consistency.
- We will add coconut milk and that will make the curry a bit runny so make sure you have a thick consistency curry before you add coconut milk. DO NOT add too much water.
- When vegetables are fully cooked, add chopped spinach and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Finally add coconut milk, give it a stir. Let it cook on low flame for about 2 minutes until you see one or 2 bubbles.
- Turn off the flame. Do to boil the curry after adding coconut milk, this will make the split. We just want to heat it up after adding coconut milk.
- Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot with steamed rice.
Notes
- Sprouted chickpeas can be made by soaking overnight then sprouting in a muslin cloth for 1-2 days with occasional watering.
- The recipe is flexible: substitute broccoli with cauliflower, potatoes with sweet potatoes, and sprouted chickpeas with canned ones if needed.
- Store-bought curry powder can be used instead of individual spices; use about 1½ teaspoons but expect a different flavor.
- Adjust spice levels by omitting green chilies or reducing red chili powder to suit your tastes.
- For a non-vegetarian version, add chicken, lamb, or beef as desired.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 6 servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 263
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 263kcal | 13% |
| Carbohydrates | 36g | 12% |
| Protein | 10g | 20% |
| Fat | 11g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat | 7g | 35% |
| Sodium | 148mg | 6% |
| Potassium | 1209mg | 26% |
| Fiber | 10g | 40% |
| Sugar | 6g | 12% |
| Vitamin A | 3856IU | 77% |
| Vitamin C | 119mg | 132% |
| Calcium | 145mg | 15% |
| Iron | 7mg | 39% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.