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I love curry! Early in my plant based journey, I discovered how easy it is to make a delicious and healthy vegan curry. This madras curried lentils recipe was the first one I made, and remains a frequent meal.
These simple curried chickpeas seem destined to become my next favorite. And preparing them in the pressure cooker speeds up the process.
Curry
Curry is a broad term for a variety of dishes originating in India. The recipes use a combination of spices and herbs that typically includes turmeric, cumin, coriander, ginger and fresh or dried chilies. Curry can be sweet and mild. Or the flavor can be hot and spicy.
Curry is usually prepared as a sauce and combined with vegetables, fruits or proteins. These delightful curried chickpeas are mild and gain their flavor from a combination of six spices and herbs.
Curried Chickpeas Recipe
This recipe is adapted from Vegan Under Pressure. Soak dried chickpeas for eight hours before cooking. Because the cook time is so short, start the chickpeas soaking in the morning and drain and rinse them when you are ready to add to the pressure cooker.
I use my DIY vegetable broth in this recipe. Found out how easy it is to make your own, from veggie scraps. And, I prepare a batch of brown rice in the pressure cooker prior to making the curry. Combine two cups of dried brown rice with 3 cups of vegetable broth, in the pressure cooker. Lock on lid. Bring to pressure and cook for 25 minutes. Allow pressure to release naturally.
Curried Chickpeas
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 small yellow onion, diced
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tsp ground ginger may substitute fresh grated ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp ground mustard
- 2 tsp curry powder
- 2 cups dried chickpeas, soaked 8 hours and drained
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- sea salt to taste
Instructions
- Rinse chickpeas after soaking for 8 hours. Set aside.
- Heat pressure cooker (I use meat setting) and saute onions in small amount of vegetable broth for 1 - 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for another minute.
- Add spices and stir. Add drained and rinsed chickpeas and vegetable broth.
- Lock on lid. Bring to pressure and cook for 15 minutes. Allow pressure to come down naturally. Carefully remove lid.
- Test a chickpea to see if it is done. If not, lock on lid again and return to pressure, cooking for 1 - 2 minutes more.
- Stir chickpeas and add the tomato paste and sea salt to taste. Serve with brown rice.
Notes
Perfect Quick Curry
I love this curry! Just inhaling the scent of the spices as I prepare the recipe gets me hungry for this tasty dish. And I don’t mind at all cleaning up the kitchen while the curried chickpeas cook. They smell wonderful.
They taste wonderful as well. The combination of spices is perfect. The fun part is you can play around with different spices to change up the flavor slightly. Swap out the curry powder for garam masala. Add a pinch of red pepper flakes. Throw in a bit of chili powder.
For me the current mix of flavors is absolutely right. As cooler weather appears, these curried chickpeas, served over brown rice, will grace my bowl often.
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This looks spot on!
It’s a great recipe and so easy to make!
Yum! This is amazing – I can trick my fiancé into eating curry because he loves chick peas so much 😉
Enjoy! These are so good.
What a great recipe! I can’t wait to try this! Thank you!
Enjoy!
This recipe looks yummy Cindy, and easy to make! A must-try for my family. I love food that is flavorful with lots of spices and of course healthy. Thank you for sharing!
It’s so good!
Sounds delicious! I only ever use chickpeas for hummus so I need to try this:)
You will enjoy!
Yum! My husband loves Indian food and I bet these would make him super happy. Thanks for the recipe! I wonder if it’d be good ground up as a hummus?
I’ve made my own hummus with chickpeas. I bet this would make great spicy hummus!
Chana Masala is one of my absolute favorite Indian dishes. Your recipe looks wonderful (I would only add additional heat to ours) and will be adding it to our list of dishes to try.
Awesome! Yes it’s easy to up the heat level.
Of the new recipes, I try, my wife and I agree that I should repeat some of them, but with these Chickpea recipes, we both wanted it again the next day!
I’ve been fixing this one a lot!
I will have to try this as another protein option for meals.
Yes! Easy to prepare and so yummy.
This looks like something I would love to try. Thanks!
It’s so good!
This sounds delicious! Always looking for new dinner ideas. 🙂
Such a quick meal and delicious!
This looks delicious. I live chickpeas and curry. I will have to try this.
I’m loving this recipe!
Great recipe! You make it seem so easy! I will have to try!
This recipe is super easy and yet so good!
Sounds delicious! My husband will love these – thank you!
Enjoy! They are so good.
What a delicious looking recipe!
It truly is!
These look amazing! I’ll have to try this out, my son loves chick peas.
Enjoy! They are so good.
Wow, these look great. I am going to give them a try.
Awesome! Enjoy. I’ve prepared these several times. Love them.
We love reading and then trying new recipes! Thank you for sharing.
I hope you enjoy!
Looks delicious! Do you find this could be a good recipe for all year round?
Yes it’s a great curry dish for any time! So quick to prepare in the pressure cooker.
This looks delicious. We haven’t tried Curry or chickpeas so now we have a recipe to try. Thank you for sharing.