Vegan Chickpea Vegetable Korma Food

EASY VEGAN CHICKPEA KORMA

Steps:

• To Make the Nut Paste: Place 3 cups water in a saucepan over high heat. When water boils, add cashew nuts. Turn off the heat. Cover the pan with a lad. Let it rest for 30 minutes. Drain and place cashew nuts in a food processor. Add a little water to make a smooth nut paste. Set aside.
• To Make Chickpea Korma: Heat ghee or oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add cardamom pods, cloves and dried bay leaves, and fry, stirring often. Add onions, and sauté, stirring, for 2-3 minutes or until softened. Add ginger and garlic, and fry, stirring, for 1-2 minutes.
• Add ground coriander, garam masala and chili powder, and sauté, stirring constantly, until aromatic. Stir the nut paste into the spice mixture. Add ½ cup water to make a thick sauce. Simmer for 2-3 minutes, or until the oil separates.
• Drain and rinse chickpeas, and add to the curry. Stir in chopped coriander, salt, and 1 ½ cups water to make thick sauce. Bring to the boil. Simmer for 3-4 minutes. Add coconut milk and heat through. Garnish with more coriander leaves.

VEGAN CHICKPEA VEGETABLE KORMA

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large, deep skillet (or a medium sized pot) over medium heat. Add the onion and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until the onion is clear and tender. Add the ginger and garlic and cook for another minute, stirring constantly. Stir in the cumin, coriander, cardamom, turmeric, cinnamon, salt, and pepper.
• Add the cauliflower, green beans, carrots, peas, chickpeas, broth, and cashew cream to the skillet. Bring the mixture to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes, or until all vegetables are tender. Stir in the baby spinach and lime juice and simmer for 2-3 more minutes, or until the spinach is tender. Taste and adjust the seasonings as desired. Serve over cooked rice, quinoa, or another grain, or with a flatbread of choice. Top with chopped green onion tops or cilantro.

CREAMY VEGGIE KORMA

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pan. Cook onion with the dry spices over a low heat for 5-6 mins until the onion is light golden. Add the chilli, garlic and ginger and cook for 1 min, then throw in the mixed vegetables and cook for a further 5 mins.
• Divide the mixture appropriately between two pans if serving vegetarians and meat eaters. Chop the chicken into small chunks and stir into one pan. Add the stock, dividing between the pans appropriately, and simmer for 10 mins (if only cooking the veggie version in one pan, use 300ml stock; if dividing between two pans, add 250ml to each). Divide the peas, if necessary, and add, cooking for 3 mins more until the veg are tender and the chicken is cooked through.
• Remove from the heat and stir through the yogurt and ground almonds, if using. Serve sprinkled with the toasted almonds and coriander, with basmati rice or naan bread on the side.

BAKED VEGAN KORMA

Steps:

• Before you get started take a look at our chopping and knife skills guide. Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. If your chopping board doesn't have anti-slip grips, lay a dampened tea towel or sheet of kitchen paper on the work surface, then place the board on top to stop it from slipping. Pull the leaves off the cauliflower, discarding any damaged or wilted ones and reserving the rest. Cut the cauliflower florets and leaves into bite-sized pieces, then cut the stalk into smaller pieces. Tip everything into the roasting tin.
• Trim away the root end of the spring onions and peel off the papery skins. Snip the spring onions into small pieces directly into the tin using kitchen scissors. Drizzle the oil over the veg, then season with a pinch of salt and toss everything together with your hands. Put the tin on the middle shelf of the oven. Roast for 15 mins.
• Peel the skins off the garlic cloves. After 15 mins, carefully remove the tin from the oven using oven gloves. Squeeze the garlic cloves directly into the tin using the garlic crusher.
• Measure out the curry paste - you can do this using scales or estimate based on the quantity of paste in the jar - if it's 200g, add roughly half (see tips below). Stir the curry paste and garlic into the veg.
• Use a can opener to open the can of chickpeas, then tip into a sieve over a bowl to catch the liquid (see below for ideas on how to use this liquid and save on waste). Tip the drained chickpeas into the roasting tin.
• Pour the coconut cream into the tin, then measure out 450ml water using a measuring jug and add this, too. Crumble over the stock cube.
• Weigh out the green beans using scales. If they have stalks, snap or carefully cut them off. Add the beans to the roasting tin.
• Weigh out the ground almonds using scales, then tip them into the tin. Hold the tin steady with one hand while wearing an oven glove and gently stir everything together using a wooden spoon. Return the tin to the oven for 25 mins, then carefully remove from the oven (there will be hot liquid in the tin). Serve the curry with cooked rice or naans and some mango chutney.

VEGAN CHICKPEA KORMA

Steps:

• Combine the tomato paste, garlic, curry powder, cardamom, coriander, and a bit of the vegetable oil to make a paste. Set aside.
• Fry the chopped onion in vegetable oil until soft.
• Stir curry paste mixture into the onion and fry together for a minute.
• Stir the coconut milk into the onion/curry paste mixture in the pan to create the sauce and heat through to bubbling.
• Add in the bell pepper and chickpeas.
• Stir together, and then stir in ginger and cayenne pepper (taste to get the desire level of heat from the cayenne).
• Bring to bubbling and then cover and reduce heat.
• Simmer for 15 minutes.