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Eating veggie » Recipes » Aubergine, Potato and Chickpea Balti

Aubergine, Potato and Chickpea Balti

Preparation 10 mins, Cooking 30 mins

Serves 4

Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Low Fat, Suitable for Freezing, Vegan, Wheat-Free

This is a delicious chickpea balti-style curry.


Ingredients

For the vegetables

  • 2 tbsp vegetable
  • 1 onion, peeled and finely sliced
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 aubergine, cut into 1 cm cubes
  • 1 potato, peeled and cut into 1 cm cubes
  • 1 x 410g can chickpeas, rinsed & drained
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • ¼ tsp ground turmeric

For the Sauce

  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 onion, peeled and finely sliced
  • 2 garlic, crushed
  • 2 tsp root ginger, peeled and grated
  • 4cm piece cassia bark
  • 6 whole cloves
  • 450g chopped plum tomatoes
  • ¼ tsp ground turmeric
  • ½ tsp ground coriander
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 1 sugar
  • 1½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder, to taste

To finish

  • 4 tbsp finely chopped fresh coriander
  • 200ml water
  • ½ tsp garam masala

Method

  1. To make the vegetables: Heat the oil in a large saucepan and add the sliced onions and cumin seeds. Cook for 3 minutes.
  2. Add the chopped potato, aubergine, ground coriander, cumin and turmeric. Stir to coat vegetables evenly and then cook over a high heat for 3 minutes stirring occasionally. Remove from pan and set aside.
  3. To make the sauce: Heat the oil in the pan. Add the onion, crushed garlic, grated ginger, cassia bark and whole cloves and cook for 1 minute.
  4. Add chopped plum tomotoes, turmeric, coriander, cumin, garam masala, salt, sugar and chilli to taste. Cook on a high heat for two minutes, then lower to a medium heat and cook for a further 3 minutes stirring occasionally.
  5. Remove the cassia bark and blend the sauce roughly with a hand blender, then add the vegetables and chick peas to the sauce with 3 tablespoons of chopped coriander, the water and the garam masala.
  6. Cook over a low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Garnish with remaining chopped coriander and serve with Basmati rice and / or naan bread.

Nutrition per serving

>295.2 kcal

Calories

8.7g

Protein

18.8g

Fat

>2.1g

Saturates

>26.0g

Carbs

(1.5)g

Sugar

2.35925g

Salt

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