Chickpea curry coconut milk spinach vegetarian recipe

This chickpea curry is very greedy with its spices, coconut milk sauce and spinach. Perfect in very protein healthy vegetarian dish or fast meal.

I offer you today a recipe that I started to make during the first confinement. 5 at home and in addition to teleworking, noon and evening feed all these little people with various dishes.
So after my usual meals quickly prepared, I started to vary the inspirations, with chicken in soy sauce and lemon, shrimp pan -fried garlic, dried porcini mushrooms in the potato gratin …

And as we used a little what we found, with a good stock of chickpeas, I became a pro in natural or fragrant houmous. With candied tomatoes, beets, the remains of cumin carrots …

Anyway, I’m not going to tell you about my confined life, but it is still he that I started to do this vegetarian dish and above all full of vegetable proteinsvery fragrant with spice mixtures and the little touch of tomato …
With me they loved it, it became a basic that you enjoyed when I had shared the photo and the main lines of the recipe on the networks.
So here is the detailed recipe.

The main stages of the recipe

• We start by doing Return onion and carrot.
• We Add spices and gingerwe mix well and add the tomato puree (there or later as in the photos).

• Then The chickpeas already cooked and drained and coconut milk. If you use dry chickpeas, cook them before the indications on your package and darken them well.
• We leave Simmer slowly. The chickpeas being already cooked, we just want the flavors to mix well and that the sauce becomes ultra scented.
• We Add the spinach leaves (Optional) and we let cook a little more.

1. Before serving, you taste and adjust the seasoning Depending on its tastes: more or less liquid sauce, more or less spicy scent …

Some variants

• Replace the chickpeas with coral lenses or green lenses precious. We then approach the Indian Dahl. Or make a chickpea or lentil pea with rice.
• Add a vegetable protein For example with previously pan -fried beef dumplings or fish that will chew very slowly years the scented coconut milk.
• Vary the spices. My choice of door on a mixture of curry, cumin and turmeric (with a touch of pepper that helps to assimilate turmeric). It’s up to you to play with spices according to your preferences or if you are used to Indian cuisine or islands. You certainly have spice associations you like.
• Replace the tomato puree with tomato coulis, cube box tomatoes or even fresh tomato. Or even do not put it at all, each option has a different rendering with a more or less liquid sauce. Will you tell me what you prefer?
• Spinach is optional. Prefer the fresh spinach, or do not put it at all, it is without I started because during the covid we did with what we found! You can replace the spinach with Watercress leaves.
• Same for gingerit also works without but personally I prefer with it. Prefer without if you don’t have fresh ginger rather than using dried ginger. Add garlic.
• You can replace coconut milk with liquid cream. If you use a little dense coconut, add water to dilute.
• Or any other idea that goes through your head, there is something to do with this dish.

Up to you. It is an easy recipe to make and adapt to infinity with what you have in your cupboards. Economic and very nourishing.

Chickpea curry with coconut milk and spinach

A vegetarian dish to offer as a full main dish, or accompaniment. This chickpea curry is very greedy with its spices, its coconut milk sauce and its spinach. Perfect in a very protein healthy dish or fast meal. To decline to the envy.

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Preparation time 20 minutes min

Cooking time 30 minutes min

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Dish type Accompaniement

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In the photos that were used to take the step by step, the tomato concentrate is added after coconut milk. In reality it doesn’t matter, the two work just as well.
Remember to taste well and adjust the seasoning in spices or more coconut milk for a more liquid sauce according to your tastes.

Enjoy your food !