Chickpea Curry With Spinach And Brown Rice Recipes

INSTANT POT CHICKPEA CURRY WITH SPINACH (CHANA SAAG)

Steps:

• Wash and soak chickpeas in 3 cups of water overnight or at least for 4+ hours.
• Set the Instant Pot on sauté mode and let it heat.
• Add oil along with the whole spices (cumin, bay leaves, and cinnamon). Saute for 30 seconds until they release their aroma.
• Now add the onions, garlic, ginger and sauté them for about 3 minutes.
• When the onions turn golden brown, add the tomatoes along with the spices except for the dry mango powder (amchur powder). Saute for couple of minutes.
• Drain the soaked chickpeas and add it to the Instant Pot. Add the required water for cooking and give it a stir.
• Switch the Instant Pot to bean/chili mode on high pressure for 35 minutes with the vent in sealing position.
• When the instant pot beeps, let the pressure release naturally. If the pin does not drop in 20 minutes, you can release the pressure and open the instant pot.
• If you like a thicker gravy, use a hand masher or the back of your ladle to mash the chickpeas a bit.
• Add the chopped spinach along with the dry mango powder to the chickpea curry and stir well. Change the instant pot setting to sauté mode and let it boil for 2-3 minutes.
• Chickpea Spinach Curry is ready to be served with hot parathas, naan, roti or a steaming bowl of rice.

CHICKPEA CURRY WITH SPINACH AND BROWN RICE

Steps:

• Prepare Brown Rice per package instructions and set Frozen spinach out to thaw.
• Drain Chickpeas, rinse and set aside.
• Empty the chicken broth into a pot and begin to heat.
• Add chickpeas as you see steam begin to rise from the broth in the pot (it doesn't have to be at a boil)
• Cover and cook chickpeas in broth until tender - add water if needed b/c of evaporation.
• In a pan, heat the olive oil and add red pepper flake and the chopped garlic until it starts to brown just a little.
• Drain the thawed Spinach and add it to the pan of olive oil and garlic. cook for 6 or 7 minutes on low-medium flame. (this is where you might want to add your sea or kosher salt)
• When chickpeas are tender add curry powder and stir, they should start to thicken nicely.
• This is up to you.. I like to empty the spinach into the chickpeas and serve it over the brown rice. Enjoy, add or subtract to it, let me know what you think. for color and sweetness you can also add some sliced carrots or carrot matchsticks to the spinach.
• If you put your rice and chickpeas on at about the same time, everything should be done all together in 30-45 minutes depending on how long it takes the rice to cook (maybe cheat and use the microwave uncle bens rice)