Green Chickpeas Curry
Green chickpea curry is an easy and delicious vegan chickpea curry made with fresh and tender green garbanzo beans. These are also known as Cholia or Harbara in India and are available in winter season. This cholia curry in onion and tomato-based gravy is a green chickpeas recipe and is very easy to prepare.
Servings 4 People
Ingredients
- 2 cups green chickpeas
- 1 medium sized onion chopped
- 2 medium sized tomato chopped
- 5 garlic pods chopped
- ½ inch ginger chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 5 black peppercorns
- 1 cardamom
- 1- inch cinnamon piece
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 2 cloves
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 2 tablespoon oil
- Few coriander leaves chopped, for garnish
- To taste salt
Instructions
- Pressure cook the green chickpeas for 1 whistle. You can boil it too.
- In a kadai or sauté pan, add oil and after it gets heated, add onion and sauté till onion turns pinkish.
- Add garlic and ginger and sauté.
- Add bay leaves, black peppercorns, cumin seeds, cinnamon piece, cardamom and cloves and mix well.
- Add tomato and sauté till tomato turns mushy.
- Switch off the gas/heat.
- After cooling, transfer the contents to a mixer/grinder and grind to smooth gravy by adding ½ to 3/4th cup water.
- Pour the gravy in a saucepan and simmer.
- Mix the boiled green chickpeas.
- Add red chili powder and mix.
- Add salt to taste and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.