Chole Palak (Chickpeas With Spinach)
July 7th, 2009 filed under Dal (Lentils), Gluten Free, Subji (Vegetables), Vegan
Chickpeas and spinach is a great combination and a healthy, protein rich dish. Chickpeas immersed with spicy spinach gravy. This dish can be served with roti, naan or any other bread.
Recipe will serve 2 to 4.
Ingredients:
- 1 15oz can of chickpea (chole, garbanzo)
- 3 cups finely chopped spinach (palak)
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1/2″piece ginger (adrak)
- 1 green chili
- 3 tablespoon oil
- 1/4 teaspoon asafetida (hing)
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed (jeera)
- 1 tablespoon coriander powder (dhania)
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper adjust to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon salt adjust to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
Method:
- Drain the liquid out of the chickpeas and rince the chick peas well.
- Blend the tomatoes, green chilies, and ginger to make a puree.
- Heat the oil in a saucepan. Test the heat by adding one cumin seed to the oil; if seed cracks right away oil is ready.
- Add the asafetida and cumin seeds.
- After the cumin seeds crack, add the tomato puree, coriander powder, turmeric, red chili powder and cook for about 4 minutes on medium heat.
- Tomato mixture will start leaving the oil and will reduce to about half in quantity.
- Add spinach, and salt and one half cup of water and let it cook covered for 4 to 5 minutes on medium heat covered.
- Add the chickpeas and mash them lightly with a spatula so they soften Note: add more water as needed to keep the gravy consistency to your liking, and let it cook on low heat for 7 to 8 minutes.
- Add the garam masala and let it cook for another minute.
Simple and amazing. My housemates can’t get enough of this one. This website has opened up a world of vegan treasures, a collective round of applause for Manjula!
Dear Manjula,
I didn’t even know the ABCs of cooking before.But after finding your website & watching your videos i have made shahi paneer,paneer tikka masala,butter paneer masala,rajma-chawal,chole-palak,stuffed karela,aaloo-gobi,masala bhindi,cabbage peas,baingan ka bharta & tomato soup to date.All the recipes turned out well.
You are doing a great job.Keep it up.
Thanks,
Afshan
I love this.
I used to call people and ask them how to cook some of the Indian food, but now manjulaskitchen.com !!!!
Thanks a lot for these videos.
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Thank you, Auntie – I am making this tonight!
love the receipe…. im latin and usually dont cook with to many spices .. so i just cut the spices in half amount and it still taste great….love your receipes …….. hope to do many more
Manjula, I love your recipes, and thank you for sharing them with us! I do not have fresh spinach available, and have to use frozen blocks. Could you please approximate a frozen weight (or approximate frozen cups of the vacuum-packed frozen spinach for this recipe. THanks so much in advance : )
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since i want to use regular chick peas please tell me the quantity i have to use in place of the 15 oz can
thanks
Hi,
For how long have the chole to be soaked?
Sirisha,
About 8 hours.