Chickpea and Spinach Curry

The protein of the chickpeas!
The vitamins of the spinach and tomatoes!
The health-giving properties of the spices!
The metabolism boost of the chillies!

How healthy can a dish be? 

Well, I pushed the boat out a bit on the oil.. Chickpea curries like a little extra oil - it brings out the best in them!

This is robust vegan cuisine at its best - no faffing around with carrot cakes in my kitchen! We want flavour! We want punch! 

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Chickpea and Spinach Curry!

Serves: 4
Cost per person: 2.23 zl (45 UK pence, 53 Euro cents)

You'll need:

- 2 good handfuls of dried chickpeas, soaked overnight and boiled for 90 minutes
- 1 nice handful of fresh spinach, chopped up 
- 2 medium-large tomatoes, skinned and pureed
- 1 large clove of garlic, minced
- 1 inch ginger, minced
- 1 large mild green chilli
- 1 small hot green chilli
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- veg oil
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- salt to taste
- a splash of lemon juice

Let's get cracking!

First of all, let's prep the ingredients:

1. Soak the chickpeas overnight. Boil for 90 minutes (don't salt the water!) until soft. Or just push the boat out and buy a tin!

2. Puree the ginger, garlic and mild green chilli in a coffee grinder

3. Get the spices ready

4. Puree the tomato

5. Chop up the onion real fine, baby!

6. Wash the spinach really really well. Really well! Chop up.

7. Oil in a wok. Cumin seeds in

8. After around 10 seconds, onion in

You want to cook on a low medium heat for around 10 minutes till they look like this:

9. Get the pureed ginger, garlic and mild green chilli in there! Cook out the rawness for around a minute

10. Slice the hot green chilli and add at this stage

11. Spices in. Mix in well for a few seconds

12. Tomatoes in. Cook out for around 5 minutes. Salt a little to taste

13. Wilt down the spinach ...

... till it looks like this:

14. Add the chickpeas. Add a slash of lemon juice to life the flavour. Check the seasoning. Simmer for another 5 minutes. You're done! Serve with rice.

What did this end up costing?

- Chickpeas: 1 zl
- Tomatoes: 2 zl
- chillies: 0.50 zl
- Spinach: 1 zl
- Rice: 2.40 zl
- The rest: 2 zl

Grand total: 8.90 zl
Serves: 4
Per person: 2.23 zl