Recipe: Perfect Sweet Potato & Chickpea Curry -Vegan

Sweet Potato & Chickpea Curry -Vegan. The sweet potato or sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens.

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Ingredients of Sweet Potato & Chickpea Curry -Vegan

1. You need 1 of Glug oil.
2. You need 1 tbsp of Cumin seeds.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of Turmeric.
4. Prepare 1 pinch of Garam Masala.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of Chilli Flakes (depending on heat of curry).
6. Prepare 1 of Large Onion chopped.
7. Prepare 50 g of Root ginger.
8. It's 750 g of Sweet Potato.
9. Prepare 2 tins of Chickpeas.
10. Prepare 2 tins of Chopped Tomatoes.
11. Prepare 2 cloves of Garlic.

Alton recommends choosing specimens that are heavy for their size and free of any soft spots or sprouts. Baked sweet potatoes are the perfect, healthy side dish in the fall months. They are also great stuffed as a main dish, like this Vegetarian Loaded Sweet Potato Chili and Sloppy Joe Baked Sweet Potato. Sweet potato fries are also tasty, but don't eat them often.

Sweet Potato & Chickpea Curry -Vegan step by step

1. Heat the oil in the pan on a low heat and add the cumin seeds, garam masala & turmeric. Leave for a few mins and then add the onions, garlic, ginger and chilli flakes and increase to a medium heat for another 2 mins..
2. Add chickpeas (drain and rinse), sweet potato chunks, tinned tomatoes and enough water to cover all the chickpeas and sweet potato..
3. Cover and cook for approx half an hour on a medium- low heat, stirring occasionly and checking of more water is needed. Season when done..
4. Boil rice whilst cooking dish and serve when potato chunks become soft (this will depend based on size of potato chunks)..

Go for thinner, uniform sweet potatoes. Although you may be tempted to pick the more meatier potato, thinner sweet potatoes will cook evenly all the way through to the center. With fatter sweet potatoes, the outsides will be done before the centers have been fully cooked. Combine all ingredients; toss to coat. The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is an underground tuber.