Chickpea Curry

 Chickpea curry

I have had a tin of chickpeas sitting in my cupboard for ages and ages and i felt like a curry to use up some of my veggies, why not combine them and make a delicious chickpea curry loaded full of fresh vegetables and creamy yogurt! how could i resist!


A bit of information about the little ole' chickpea:
Chickpeas are a very good source of fiber, folic acid, manganese and great source of protein. Vegetarians use chickpeas as their meat substitute.They contain almost twice the amount of protein compared to cereal grains, as well as minerals such as iron, magnesium, copper, and zinc.

What you'll need:
1x 450gm can salt reduced chickpeas
1 red onion chopped or sliced (which ever you like)
1 tsp garlic or 1 clove
1 red chilli (you can leave out if you don't like it spicy)
As much as you want of the following:
      Broccoli (full head)
      Cabbage
      Carrot (i used 2)
      Zucchini (used 1)
*Note: you can use whatever veggies you like, this is just what i had in the fridge :) 
2-4 teaspoons of curry powder (depending if you like is strong) 
Juice of half a lemon
Coconut oil (any cooking oil will do if you don't have coconut)
Greek/natural yogurt to serve 

What to do:
Drain the canned chickpeas and rinse thoroughly with water and drain, set them aside for later.
Heat a pan with the coconut oil (or other oil), once hot, add the garlic and chilli and cook for a minute or 2, then add the onion and cook until softened.
Add the curry power and cook for a minute before adding all the veggies and lemon juice. Once the veggies are cooking cover and let it steam for a few minutes, check and stir to combine the curry powder over all the veggies. Then once they are nearly ready, (takes 3-5 minutes depending on how u like them cooked, i like mine still crunchy) then add the chickpeas and mix together, leave for another few minutes then its ready to serve! 
All up, to make this recipe it took me 15-20minutes

I served mine with a dollop of Greek yogurt (also helped with the chilli!)  

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