Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry)

Steps Cook Recipes Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) using 18 ingredients and 6 steps

Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) - Stir and increase the heat, bringing the curry to the boil, then reduce the temperature to maintain bubbling away at a lively simmer. Simmer vigorously (a high simmer, nearly boiling) for ten minutes (make sure to stir often so the curry doesn't stick and burn) and then add the frozen or fresh spinach, sugar, salt, and simmer for a further five minutes. Packed with flavour, not too spicy, and perfect as a meal or side dish. We love Indian-style meals, and over the years, this chickpea and spinach curry recipe has quickly become a family-favourite. My pantry is usually well-stocked up with beans, rice, tomatoes, and.

This curry is so rich and creamy without added cream or yogurt.

Do try out this vegan and gluten free curry known as palak chana masala too.

You can have Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients make Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry)

1. Prepare 2 tins chick peas.
2. Prepare 500 gram spinach.
3. It's 2 Onion.
4. It's Ginger & garlic paste.
5. You need 1 tin chopped tomatos.
6. You need 4 Cloves.
7. It's 1/2 cinnamon stick.
8. You need 1 black cardamom.
9. Prepare 2 Tbsp chickpea masala.
10. It's 1 tsp coriander seeds.
11. Prepare 1 tsp red chilli powder.
12. Prepare 1 tsp jeera (cumin seeds).
13. Prepare to taste Salt.
14. Prepare Oil.
15. Prepare 2 Bay leaves.
16. It's 2 green chilli.
17. Prepare Strips ginger.
18. You need Tea bag (optional).

Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) step by step

1. Boil the chickpea in the pressure cooker along with bay leaves, black cardamom, cloves and tea bag (optional) boil till you hear the two whistles from the pressure cooker. If you using the fresh chickpea you can soak them over night and cook it the pressure cooker the next day till they get soft. You can add 1/2 tsp baking powder in to that when you boil them, only use baking powder for fresh chickpea..
2. In the other pot, boil the spinach for few mins and Blend it till you get nice and smooth paste..
3. Heat up the oil in the other pan, add cumin seeds,1 Tbsp ginger and garlic, chopped onions, cook it till soft and brown in colour. Add chopped tomatoes and let it cook till it’s become in to nice paste. Add salt, coriander seeds, red chilli powder and chickpeas masala & little bit of water. Cook it for another 3-4 mins..
4. Add Spinach purée and chickpeas (boiled). Add the same water that you boiled the chickpeas with. Don’t throw the water away. Let it cook for 20 mins or so till it’s starts to get in to nice gravy..
5. At last, in the hot oil shallow fry the ginger strips and green chillis. Pour it on top of the curry..
6. Ready and serve with your choice of Roti, naan or rice 🍚.

Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) - Chana Palak makes a great curry on thali (elaborate meals) - serve it with rice, roti, dal, rasam, aloo gobi, thokku, salad, papad and pickle. This Indian chickpea and spinach curry would be called chole palak, chole saag, chana palak, or chana saag depending on where you're from. Saag and palak are the words for leafy greens in Urdu and Hindi, respectively, and in this recipe refer to spinach. Chole and chana both translate to mean chickpeas. Popularly known as chana aloo in Indian, this is one of the most favorite recipes we make with chana or chickpea. If you love chickpeas in curry you gotta checkout and try easy punjabi chole, spinach chickpea curry or this paneer chole. Potatoes are another favorite and cooked in one or the other form very often at home. Thank you and good luck