Recipe: Tasty Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry)

Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry).

You can cook Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry)

1. You need of chick peas.
2. You need of spinach.
3. You need of Onion.
4. You need of Ginger & garlic paste.
5. Prepare of chopped tomatos.
6. It's of Cloves.
7. Prepare of cinnamon stick.
8. Prepare of black cardamom.
9. It's of chickpea masala.
10. You need of coriander seeds.
11. Prepare of red chilli powder.
12. Prepare of jeera (cumin seeds).
13. Prepare of Salt.
14. Prepare of Oil.
15. It's of Bay leaves.
16. You need of green chilli.
17. It's of ginger.
18. It's of Tea bag (optional).

Spinach Channa curry (chickpea curry) instructions

1. Boil the chickpea in the pressure cooker along with bay leaves, black cardamom, cloves and tea bag (optional) boil till you hear the two whistles from the pressure cooker. If you using the fresh chickpea you can soak them over night and cook it the pressure cooker the next day till they get soft. You can add 1/2 tsp baking powder in to that when you boil them, only use baking powder for fresh chickpea..
2. In the other pot, boil the spinach for few mins and Blend it till you get nice and smooth paste..
3. Heat up the oil in the other pan, add cumin seeds,1 Tbsp ginger and garlic, chopped onions, cook it till soft and brown in colour. Add chopped tomatoes and let it cook till it’s become in to nice paste. Add salt, coriander seeds, red chilli powder and chickpeas masala & little bit of water. Cook it for another 3-4 mins..
4. Add Spinach purée and chickpeas (boiled). Add the same water that you boiled the chickpeas with. Don’t throw the water away. Let it cook for 20 mins or so till it’s starts to get in to nice gravy..
5. At last, in the hot oil shallow fry the ginger strips and green chillis. Pour it on top of the curry..
6. Ready and serve with your choice of Roti, naan or rice 🍚.