Indian Curried Chickpeas Recipes

ONE POT CHICKPEA CURRY

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large nonstick pot over medium-high heat.
• Add onions and saute until soft and translucent.
• Add garlic, ginger and saute until fragrant.
• Add garam masala, curry powder, red chili flakes, salt, pepper, curry leaves, bay leaf and cook everything until combined and fragrant. This also helps to toast spices and makes them even more fragrant.
• Add chickpeas, crushed tomatoes and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often.
• Add coconut milk and cook uncovered until liquid is reduced and curry is thickened to your desired consistency. Stir often to prevent sticking and burning.
• Discard bay leaf and curry leaves.
• Mix in lemon juice and 1 tbsp cilantro.
• Garnish remaining 1 tbsp cilantro on top and enjoy!

CHICKPEA CURRY

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium heat, and fry onions until tender.
• Stir in garlic, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, salt, cayenne, and turmeric. Cook for 1 minute over medium heat, stirring constantly. Mix in garbanzo beans and their liquid. Continue to cook and stir until all ingredients are well blended and heated through. Remove from heat. Stir in cilantro just before serving, reserving 1 tablespoon for garnish.

CHANA MASALA (SAVORY INDIAN CHICK PEAS)

Steps:

• Grind onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, and chile pepper together in a food processor into a paste.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Fry bay leaves in hot oil until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Pour the paste into the skillet and cook until the oil begins to separate from the mixture and is golden brown in color, 2 to 3 minutes. Season the mixture with chili powder, coriander, powder, gram masala, turmeric, and salt; cook and stir until very hot, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir enough water into the mixture to get a thick gravy; bring to a boil and stir chickpeas into the gravy. Reduce heat to medium and cook until the chickpeas are heated through, 5 to 7 minutes. Garnish with cilantro.

EASY CHICKPEA CURRY (CHANNA MASALA) RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large stock pot or dutch oven over medium-high heat.
• Add onion and cook until onion becomes translucent and begins to brown, about 3-5 minutes.
• Add garlic, ginger, and jalapeño. Continue to cook over medium heat until garlic is fragrant and jalapeño is tender, about 3-4 minutes.
• Add garam masala, turmeric, salt, and pepper then continue to cook for 1-2 minutes.
• Add tomatoes, chickpeas, and water. Stir to incorporate, making sure to use the spoon the scrape off any brown bits that have appeared on the bottom or sides of the pot.
• As the tomatoes break down, the mixture should take on the texture of a thick stew. Add more water if needed before bringing everything to a simmer and then cover with a lid.
• Once covered, cook for 15 minutes while stirring occasionally.
• Remove lid, reduce heat to low and mix in the lemon juice and chopped cilantro. Cook over low heat 1-2 minutes until the cilantro has wilted and turned bright green.
• Serve over basmati rice or with a side of naan.
• Enjoy!

INDIAN BUTTER CHICKPEAS

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Stir in onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt; cook until golden and browned around the edges, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes. (Don't be tempted to turn the heat up to medium-high; keeping the heat on medium ensures even browning without burning the butter.)
• Stir in garlic and ginger, and cook another 1 minute. Stir in cumin, paprika, garam masala and cinnamon stick, and cook another 30 seconds.
• Add tomatoes with their juices. Using a large spoon or flat spatula, break up and smash the tomatoes in the pot (or you can use a pair of kitchen shears to cut the tomatoes while they are still in the can). Stir in coconut milk and the remaining 1 teaspoon salt. Bring to a simmer, and continue to cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, and continuing to mash up the tomatoes if necessary to help them break down.
• Stir in chickpeas and a pinch of cayenne if you like. Bring the pot back up to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for another 10 minutes. Taste and add more salt if necessary.
• Serve spooned over white rice, and topped with cilantro.

FAMILY FAVORITE CHICKPEA CURRY WITH BHATURA BREAD

Steps:

• TO MAKE THE CHICKPEA CURRY: In a large dutch oven or other large cooking vessel, preferably with a thick bottom, put the 5 Table. oil and the two diced onions. Stir-fry until the onions are medium brown.
• Add the serrano chilies and the minced ginger and cook for 1 minute.
• Add the 3 diced tomatoes and cook for 2 more minutes.
• Add the ground coriander, ground cumin, cayenne powder, tamarind concentrate (or you could add lemon juice when the curry is done cooking), garam masala, black pepper, sugar, turmeric, cinnamon, bay leaves and salt. Cook for 2 more minutes. [I usually get these spices ready in a small bowl before cooking, so that they just need to be dumped in at this time.].
• Add the 3 cans of chickpeas and the water, and cook until the tomatoes are well cooked and you have reached the desired thickness. Add more water if necessary. At the end of the cooking time, do a taste test to make sure that the curry has enough salt and that the curry has enough of a sour taste. If you are worried about the heat level, add less of the serrano chilies and the cayenne, you can always add more spice at the end if the curry needs it.
• TO MAKE THE BHATURA BREAD: Take the 3 dry yeast packets (each packet should be .25 oz or sometimes labeled 1/4 oz. each) and put them into a medium-size bowl. Add the 1/2 cup lukewarm water. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl put the six cups of all-purpose flour (or use maida), the 6 Tablespoons oil, 1 Tablespoon sugar, and 2 teaspoons salt. Mix well.
• Add the 2 cups plain yogurt (this is not runny yogurt but the thick kind that you buy at American grocery stores. Blend.
• Once the yeast is bubbly (if it isn't bubbly, the yeast may have gotten old or your water was too hot and you killed the yeast so you will have to redo it.), stir the yeast into the flour/yogurt mixture. Knead until elastic. Add more yogurt or flour as needed until the dough is not too wet nor too dry.
• Set the dough aside for 4-5 hours to raise.
• When ready to make, roll out dough pieces into a very large poori shape, and deep fry. Drain on paper towels.
• Be sure that you deep fry these bhatura bread pieces in a dutch oven so that the bread has plenty of room to balloon up when fried.
• This is excellent served with a raita or seasoned yogurt on the side.
• Cooking time is for the chickpea curry only.

CURRIED CHICKPEAS

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed pan. Fry the cumin, chillies, clove, cinnamon and bay leaf together until the cumin starts to crackle. Tip in the onion, turmeric and a pinch of salt. Cook for 2 mins until starting to soften, then add the garlic.
• Continue cooking 4-5 mins until the onion is soft, then add chickpeas, paprika, black pepper and ground coriander. Give everything a good stir so the chickpeas are well coated in the spices.
• Add the tomatoes and 2 tbsp water. Cook on a medium heat until tomatoes are soft and the sauce is thick and pulpy. Take off the heat and sprinkle on the coriander.

CURRIED CHICKPEAS WITH CILANTRO

Steps:

• If you are using dry chickpeas, soak and cook them, according to the package directions. (This requires overnight soaking, followed by boiling for about 1 hour.) If you are using canned chickpeas, drain and rinse them.
• In a 2 quart saucepan, saute onion, garlic, pepper, cardamom, cumin, corriander, curry powder, tumeric, and mustard seeds in oil. (If the spices start to stick and burn on the bottom of the pan, add a little water.).
• When the onions are soft, add the cilantro. Adding water as necessary, stir constantly to cook the cilantro, about 1-2 minutes.
• Add chickpeas. Stir and cook until heated through, about 1-2 minutes.
• Serve over brown rice.

CHICKPEA DAAL (INDIAN)

Steps:

• Wash chickpeas in water.
• Put chickpeas in fresh water with salt, two parts water to one part chickpeas.
• Leave overnight to soak.
• Put chickpeas (with water they were soaked in) into a large pot. Top up water to maintain 2 parts water to 1 part chickpea ratio if necessary. Bring water to a boil.
• Cover and turn down to medium (level 5) heat, skim off any white foam.
• Leave to simmer until chickpeas are tender, usually 2 or 3 hours.
• Take off heat.
• In a large pot, sauté onions and garlic on high heat, then turn down to (medium-high) level 8.
• When onions are thoroughly transparent put in ginger.
• Continue to sauté until mixture is sticking to bottom and brown bits are evident.
• Put onion mixture in a food processor and mix (not steadily) until smooth.
• Process tomato, 1/2 tomato portions at a time.
• Put mixture back into large pot.
• Add green onion.
• Heat should be at (medium-high) level 8.
• When mixture starts to bubble add tomato paste.
• Stir for 1 to 2 minutes until butter is released and mixture does not stick to pot.
• Add in potatoes.
• Add in chana masala.
• Reduce heat to level 7.
• Put in chickpeas with a slotted spoon.
• Water is NOT put in, but put aside for later.
• Mix for about 2 minutes Add in red pepper, masala.
• Mix for a further 2 minutes.
• Add water from chickpeas, additional water can be added to give mixture a watery consistency (mixture should not be too thick looking initially, as mixture will reduce, usually you can add in another cup of water).
• Add turmeric.
• Bring mixture to a boiling point on max heat, then reduce heat to level 7. Cover partially and mix infrequently.
• Once potatoes are tender, the daal is done.
• This daal is typically eaten with Indian bread- naan or chapati.
• As with most Indian cooking there is no"true" recipe, the cook decides what the recipe needs (somewhat of a hit and miss strategy, but it works).
• If you are unable to find garam masala the following can be used: 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin, 1/2 teaspoon paprika, 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne, 1/4 teaspoon cracked dried bay leaves, and 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves.