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

The recipe

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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

Yield 4 cups (1 kg)

Calories 485 kcal

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

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

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