Curried Chickpeas

A delicious Indian-style curried bean side dish that you make using your home-canned goods.

Nice served with one of your home-canned chutneys.

(To be clear, this is a “cooking with canning you have already done” recipe. This is not a recipe for canning.)

This recipe uses:

Home-canned chickpeas

Home-canned okra

Home-canned greens

Minnesota Mix

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Curried Chickpeas

A delicious Indian-style curried bean side dish that you make using your home-canned chickpeas and other home-canned items.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Chickpeas

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4 cups (1 kg)

Calories 485kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 3 cm gingerroot (fresh, grated. 1 inch)
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 3 cloves garlic (peeled and minced)
• 1 half-litre jar Minnesota mix (pint jar)
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned chickpeas (pint jar)
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned okra (pint jar)
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned greens (pint jar. Kale, spinach, Swiss chard, etc.)
• coriander (aka cilantro. Fresh. Optional. )

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Heat oil in frying pan.
• Add ginger, curry powder and garlic. Sauté for two or three minutes.
• Add the jar of tomatoes.
• Simmer for about 5 minutes, to drive off excess water.
• Add the remaining ingredients, well-drained.
• [Optional] Just before serving, stir in some fresh, washed coriander leaves.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 485kcal | Carbohydrates: 89.3g | Protein: 23.6g | Fat: 7.5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 153mg | Fiber: 24.8g | Sugar: 19.5g

Recipe notes

• Instead of the fresh grated ginger and minced garlic, you would use 1 tablespoon of each from a jar of minced ginger, and garlic. Or instead, you could just use some onion powder (probably best to give the ground ginger a miss; totally different taste.)
• Instead of the Minnesota Mix, you can use regular crushed tomatoes. If you do, you may want to add some onion, or onion powder.
• The greens can be spinach, kale, mixed greens, etc. We used kale.
• Instead of curry powder, you could use your own mix of turmeric, ground dried coriander and ground dried cumin.
• If you don’t have fresh coriander to hand, you can omit, or use a tablespoon or so of coriander from a tube. Fresh coriander leaves actually freeze well. Just wash, roll up in a plastic bag, seal, and secure the rolled-up bag in a tube with an elastic. Use for cooking. This can be more practical than trying to keep fresh in the house.

Nutrition

Per 1 cup (250 g / 8 oz)

• 485 calories, 153 mg sodium

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com