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Chana Masala | Curried Chickpeas

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

Healthy chickpeas are added to slowly-cooked onions, tomatoes and freshly-ground spices. Finished with lemon, coconut milk...

Comments: 41 Views: 25173 Success: 98%

Jonathan H

Fantastic!!!

A wonderful variety of fresh vibrant flavors. That's it, nothing more to say. Thanks Rouxbe for rocking my culinary world.

Jonathan H

I lied...

There is something more to say. I omitted the yogurt due to self-imposed dairy restrictions and subbed home-grown jalapeƱos for the chilies. Absolutely fantastic dish, I think this may have solidified Indian's lead as my new favorite cuisine.

Dave M

Delicious Recipe!

I only made a couple changes to this recipe, and it was fantastic. Like someone else mentioned, I only used half a lemon, as the acidity was quite nice already. I also added a can of tomato paste and a little brown sugar. The depth of flavors was fantastic!

Laura C

Chickpeas Served with Dal

I am glad you have Indian Cuisine recipes. One of the suggestions is to serve the chickpeas with Dal. Do you have any Dal recipe that you can suggest? Thanks for your awsome selection of dishes.

Gail S

Chana

This is very good. I'm too impatient to wait for the rice to cook so I'm eating it with a spoon right now! Thanks again Rouxbe!

Joe  G
Rouxbe Staff

One of my favorites too!

Enjoy. Joe

Alexandre S

Using dried chickpeas

After soaking the dried chickpeas, for how long should I precook them before starting the recipe?

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

Re: Using Dried Chickpeas

The chickpeas should be fully cooked before starting. For more information check out the lesson on "How to Cook Dried Legumes". Enjoy the dish, it's a good one. Cheers!

Steve E
Rouxbe Staff

Passed the Ultimate Test

The ultimate benchmark for success of a new dish around my table is if my kids will eat it. All mine tried this and liked it. One even went back for seconds. I call that a total win!

Franck C

extra soaked beans

I soaked too much peas, how long can I keep them in the fridge? any chance letting them dry and use anytime later with unsoaked ones?
(by the way, the almond coriander chicken recipe Joe linked above was superb!)

Joe  G
Rouxbe Staff

Too many chickpeas

You could dry them again I suppose, by I would suggest just cooking them and then eating them. Chickpeas are great. One of my favorite ways to it eat them is to pulse them quickly in a food processor with a touch of dijon, sea salt, crushed black pepper and then add them to salad greens. Be sure to cook the chickpeas in salted water and just very quickly pulse them to break them up.

Franck C

Re: Too many chickpeas

thanks Joe for the quick reply (I've just realized I wrote beans lol). I'll try your idea, sounds good.

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

RE: Too Many Chickpeas

Cooked chickpeas (and many other legumes) also freeze very well. Cheers!

Sue T

Great Recipe

I have made this several times. Absolutely delicious.
Just make sure you cook the chickpeas long enough - last time I made it they were a little too crunchy. I shan't make that mistake again.

Joy A

Thumbs up from my vegan friends

I have been wanting to make this dish, and when my vegan friends said they were coming over for lunch, this was the perfect opportunity. They absolutely loved it! Even my 12 year old son loved it! Please post more Indian recipes!

It took me longer than 30 mins to get the onions to the same color as the video, but luckily I used that time to prep my other dishes.

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

Re: Thumbs up for my vegan friends

Yeah! So glad that everyone liked the dish. I know it's a popular one here at Rouxbe as well. Cheers!

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