Recipe: Yummy Chickpea Curry

Chickpea Curry.

You can have Chickpea Curry using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chickpea Curry

1. Prepare 2 of cinnamon sticks.
2. You need 4 of pepper corns.
3. Prepare 2 of cardamom pods, lightly crushed in a mortar.
4. You need 3 of shallots, peeled and roughly chopped.
5. It's 1 of thumb sized piece of ginger root, peeled and finely chopped.
6. You need 4 of garlic cloves, peeled and crushed.
7. It's 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
8. Prepare 1 of chili flakes.
9. It's 1 tsp of garam masala.
10. Prepare 500 grams of canned chopped tomatoes.
11. It's 500 ml of water.
12. You need 2 can of chickpeas, drained (2×400g).

Chickpea Curry instructions

1. Heat some oil in a pan. When the oil gets hot, stir in cinnamon, cardamom and pepper corns.
2. As soon as the spices start sizzling, add in the shallots. Fry for 1min on high heat.
3. Then add ginger, garlic and the rest of the spices (turmeric, chili and garam masala). Shallots should be nicely browned.
4. When garlic gets fragrant (30sec), add tomatoes and water. Bring to a boil, then add chickpeas.
5. Cover and cook on low for 15-20min, season with salt and serve over rice or quinoa. Enjoy and be careful not to eat the pepper corns, cinnamon sticks and cardamom pods!.