Easy and cheap: vegan curry with chickpeas and sweet potato
Tasty, easy and vegan. What else do you want from this curry recipe with chickpeas? That it's cheap? Check! This versatile recipe is easy to make on a weeknight and you can use all kinds of leftover vegetables.
Kitchenware
- 1 chopping board and knife
- 1 large pan
- 1 saucepan(optional for rice)
Ingredients
- 500 gr dried chickpeas* or 2 tins of canned chickpeas
- 2 tin coconut milk (2×400 ml)
- 1 onion
- 2-4 clove garlic
- 3 cm ginger
- 1 el turmeric
- 1 fluorescent chilli (if you don't like spicy, put in a little less)
- 750 ml hot water
- 2 stock cubes
- 2 large sweet potatoes (Also delicious: plain potatoes, say 8 small ones or 6 large ones.)
- leftover vegetables (e.g. spinach, courgette, aubergine, tomato, potato, carrot and/or cauliflower) (2 vegetables are enough).
- 4 lime leaves (Tip: keep standard in freezer).
- dash olive oil for frying and grilling
- optional rice or flatbread as a side dish
- optional as topping: (vegetable) yoghurt, coriander, pepper, mint, sambal
Instructions
prepare vegan curry with chickpeas
- Wash, peel/peel and cut all vegetables and spices. Ginger I also peel before I cut it.
- Briefly fry the onion, garlic and ginger in a large pan.
- Pour in the coconut milk.
- Add the chickpeas. Note: do not add everything if you also want to roast chickpeas in the oven. (tip!)
- Add the hot water with bouillon cubes.
- Add the potatoes and hard vegetables and simmer for 30 minutes until soft (I pre-cook hard vegetables like carrots for 20 minutes).
- Stir frequently.
- Add the soft vegetables such as cucumber only at the last minute and simmer for up to 10 minutes.
- Serve with rice, flatbread and don't forget the yummy toppings! Enjoy!
Roasted chickpea topping
- Keep some chickpeas aside to roast. Place them on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper, cumin seeds, chilli and turmeric. And then place in a preheated oven (220°C) for 15 minutes.
Notes
*Dried chickpeas should be soaked for at least 8 hours in a pan of cold water and then boiled for 40 minutes before it can go into your curry.