North Indian
Chickpea Coconut Curry
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Chickpea Coconut Curry is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat and cook the onion until soft, about 6 minutes.
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Add the garlic and ginger and cook until fragrant, 1 minute, then stir in the curry powder, cumin, and turmeric for 30 seconds.
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Pour in the diced tomatoes and simmer 5 minutes to thicken.
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Add the drained chickpeas and the coconut milk, season with the salt, and simmer until slightly reduced, about 12 minutes.
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Stir in the spinach until wilted.
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Serve over the cooked rice.
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Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chickpea Coconut Curry, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chickpea Coconut Curry carries coconut. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Aloo Paratha (Potato Stuffed Flatbread) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 650 kcal
- Protein
- 16 g
- Carbs
- 83 g
- Fat
- 28 g
- Fiber
- 9 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 19 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chickpea Coconut Curry takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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