Best chicken and chickpea curry. Brown the chicken pieces for a few minutes. Remove the chicken from the pot and add the onions and garlic. Cook them for a few minutes until they soften then add the turmeric, yellow curry powder, garam masala and cardamom. Remove from heat and keep covered until ready to eat. This vegan chickpea, red pepper and spinach curry is flavoured with ginger, chilli, garam masala, cumin and turmeric.
This chickpea and tomato based curry has a variety of spices which you can modify based on your preferences, chicken is easily added to this dish, but can also be left out.
Usually served with a scoop of thick natural yoghurt to counterbalance the heat.
Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
You can have Best chicken and chickpea curry using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Best chicken and chickpea curry
- Prepare 3 of large chicken breasts, cut into large chunks.
- You need 2 tbsp of thick yoghurt - we use Fage 5% greek.
- Prepare 2 of heaped tsp cumin.
- Prepare 1 of heaped tsp garam masala.
- You need 1 tsp of turmeric.
- Prepare Half of tsp mild chilli powder.
- You need 3 tbsp of olive or coconut oil.
- It's 2 of medium onions, finely chopped.
- It's 2 of garlic cloves,finely chopped.
- Prepare 1 inch of piece of root ginger (or use a heaped tsp frozen ginger), finely chopped or grated.
- It's 2 of extra tsp cumin and turmeric.
- You need 8-10 of new potatoes, skins on, pre-cooked - we were using some leftovers!.
- You need 400 g of tin coconut milk (you could use light but we prefer regular full-fat!).
- Prepare 210 g of tin chickpeas.
- It's 150 g of fresh spinach.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of tomato puree.
- It's of Salt and pepper.
Reduce the heat to medium, and stir in the garlic, curry powder, cinnamon, and clove. Heat the vegetable oil in a large Dutch oven or pot over medium-high. The coconut milk gives this dish a bit of sweetness and the curry powder brings a little heat. This chickpea curry recipe is by no means overly spicy.
Best chicken and chickpea curry step by step
- Add the spices (cumin, garam masala, turmeric and chilli powder) to a bowl with 1 tbsp of oil and mix. Add 2 tbsp of greek yoghurt and stir well. Add the chicken to the bowl and coat with the spice mixture. Cover and put in the fridge and marinade for as long as you can - we often forget to do it overnight but this produces the best results. If not, marinade as soon as you remember, even for an hour before cooking..
- To start cooking, heat the 1 tbsp of oil in a large frying pan or wok. Add the onion, garlic and ginger and fry for 5 minutes until softened. Add 1 tsp of extra cumin and turmeric and stir for a minte or so..
- In a bowl, add the remaining cumin and garam masala to 1 tbsp of oil and mix. Tip in the cooked potatoes and stir well until coated..
- In a smaller non-stick pan, fry the potatoes until they are crispy and golden - this should take about 10 to 15 minutes..
- Whilst your potatoes are frying, add the marinating chicken chunks with their sauce to the cooked onion mixture in your large pan. Turn up the heat so that the mixture starts to bubble, then reduce the heat to low/medium. Add half a tin of coconut milk and cook for approx 15 minutes or until sauce starts to thicken and the chicken is cooked. If the sauce starts to thicken too much, add more coconut milk, a little at a time..
- Add 1 tbsp of tomato puree and a small tin of drained chickpeas. Stir well, adding the fresh spinach and stir again. Cover and cook for 5 minutes..
- Now add the crispy potatoes and cook for a final 5 minutes.
- Season well with salt and pepper and serve with basmati brown rice or poppodums and naan if you prefer. You can also serve the potatoes separately as I did for my children as they love the crispiness!!.
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