Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chana masala (chickpea curry) - purely veg. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Channa Masala is an Indian style curry made with Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans. It's a great option for vegetarian/vegan source of protein. This chickpea spinach curry is healthy, vegan, and ready in under half an hour.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chana masala (chickpea curry) - purely veg using 21 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chana Masala (Chickpea curry) - purely veg:
- Get 3 tbsp oil
- Prepare 2 tbsp butter
- Take Salt (to taste)
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1 tbsp chana masala
- Take 1 pinch asafetida
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp coriander cumin
- Take 1 tbsp red chilli powder (as per taste)
- Make ready 4 tbsp tomato ketchup
- Prepare 4 tbsp hot chilli ketchup (as per taste 😁)
- Prepare 1 small bowl chick peas (could be more)
- Get 2-3 tomatoes
- Make ready 2 medium sized onions or 1 big onion
- Make ready 1 spring onion - finely chopped
- Make ready 2 green chillis (the thin ones - spicy)
- Get 1 boiled potato (chopped) - optional
- Take 1 slice ginger - grated
- Take 2 cloves garlic - grated
- Get 1 lemon
- Prepare 30 g chopped coriander - for flavor
The only big twist is the fresh curry leaves. And this Chana Aloo Curry (Chana = chickpeas, Aloo = potatoes), is one such example. A great tasting curry from scratch will always call for a fair few spices. My Chana aloo curry turned out wonderfully.
Instructions to make Chana Masala (Chickpea curry) - purely veg:
- Soak a bowl of chick peas or the amount you'd want to cook, overnight, or for at least 8 hours (tip).
- Boil chickpeas in a cooker (this would do faster). Add enough water, chickpeas, a pinch of salt, a little bit of turmeric, some few drops of oil. Let the cooker whistle 3-4 times atleast. If you do not have a cooker, just boil them normally on the gas for may be 30 minutes (minimum).
- While the chickpeas boil; grind the onions (preferably the red ones but you could take the white ones too) and green chillis. Separately grind the tomatoes. Grate a slice of ginger. Grate 2 cloves of garlic (you can add more depending on your taste). Do all of these separately.
- Take a frying pan, add oil and butter as mentioned and let it heat.
- Add a pinch of asafetida, add the grated garlic and ginger together with bay leaf and let it fry for some few seconds (1-2 seconds). Do not let it turn brown. You should already be able to smell the garlic
- Add the ground onion and chillis together with the chopped spring onions. Fry until the colour of the onion changes slightly.
- Add the ground tomatoes (or tomato paste), the chana masala, salt to taste, cumin coriander powder, turmeric, red chilli, the ketchup and hot chilli ketchup and stir. Let it fry on slow or medium heat until the tomatoes appear to be cooked. (For this dish Baadshah's chana masala was used, you can use Everest also or any other make).
- Add the chickpeas and water as required (If you end up adding extra water, you can let it boil until some of it evaporates 😜). If you want it dry do not add water, just 4-5 tablespoons. Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves, squeeze half a lemon & mix everything together. Let it boil on medium flame until you notice a thin layer of oil around the corners or the top (in other words, the oil separates from the spices). If you want to add potatoes you can do so in this step. Potato is optional.
- Serve in a bowl, garnish with chopped tomatoes, chopped onions and chopped coriander. If you do not want to garnish it, you can serve with a slice of lemon, slices of onions in the side and a green chilli. You can either have rice, naan, chapati, roti, paratha or even bread with it. Enjoy ! 😋
I wanted to make it vegan so I didn't top it with yogurt. This Vegan Chickpea Curry or Chana masala is a variation on the regular recipe with bell peppers and different spices. gluten-free soy-free Indian. Well, there cannot be enough chickpea curries right. Chickpeas in any Indian curryare called Chana masala. Beautiful fluffy chickpeas curry in onion tomato based spicy gravy is going to tickle your taste buds with spice and flavors.
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