Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas
A veggie dinner party dish which stands alone as a vegan main course or as a complex side dish perfect served with spiced roast meat or fish.
Recipes
Posted 26 January 2021
Prep: 30 minutes (including cooking)
easy
Serves:
2
V
Vegetarian
Ingredients
For the curry
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 3 tbsp Thai yellow curry paste, or vegetarian alternative
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 3 large stalks lemongrass, bashed with the back of a knife
- 6 cardamom pods
- 1 tbsp mustard seed
- 1 piece pumpkin or a small squash (about 1kg)
- 250ml vegetable stock
- 400ml can reduced-fat coconut milk
- 400g can chickpea, drained and rinsed
- 2 limes
- large handful mint leaves
- Naan bread, to serve
Method
Preparation
- Heat the oil in a sauté pan, then gently fry the curry paste with the onions, lemongrass, cardamom and mustard seed for 2-3 mins until fragrant.
- Stir the pumpkin or squash into the pan and coat in the paste, then pour in the stock and coconut milk.
- Bring everything to a simmer, add the chickpeas, then cook for about 10 mins until the pumpkin is tender. The curry can now be cooled and frozen for up to 1 month.
- Squeeze the juice of one lime into the curry, then cut the other lime into wedges to serve alongside.
- Just before serving, tear over mint leaves, then bring to the table with the lime wedges and warm naan breads.
