Chana Masala

[oktokrewl]

me and my husband wanted some chana masala.. so im like ok! ill make some!..  i came on here to get a recipe and there are like 15 chana masala recipes! oh no! haha so after like 30 mins of looking through each one i settled on this one.. mostly because it had ingredients that i had, and it had coconut milk in it.. yum!

so i made a double recipe.. i used freshly cooked black chickpeas (~3 cups) and a large sweet potato, instead of the normal yellow chickpeas and white potato.. i also added 3 small minced red scotch bonnet peppers (like a habanero) and the juice of 1 lime.. and i cut the onions into slivers instead of mincing it, cuz every chana masala ive had in restaurants had the onions cut like that..

i didnt have garam masala.. so i made my own

1 tablespoon ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander (I used curry powder)
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

im glad i picked this recipe.. and im glad it turned out so good!.. now i have enough delicious indian food to last us for at least a week

i served it with rice, plantain chips, cilantro and fruit chutney

[Storm]

Mmmmm, I made this over the weekend and it was a big hit at my house.  I added some red pepper flakes to heat it up a bit more and served it with basmati and hot mango chutney. 

[crunchy-girl]

so i definately just made this in my dorm room haha...we are lucky enough to have a kitchen in the hall and i was craving something homemade for a change...i pretty much followed the recipe, but used rice milk instead of coconut and i didnt have the cumin or ginger. it came out amazinggg tho for dorm room chana and i also added tofu for more protien. im so excited to eat it! this is an awesome simple recipe! 

[davathar]

I do a lot of cooking for my mother who doesn't like to cook much and is afraid of Vegan cooking.  I tried to give her this recipe and have her go at it, but as soon as I started telling her about it, she got the potatoes and onion and said "Ok, I'll do the chopping" and I found myself cooking again.

I guess it's mostly because I'm a bit of a control freak and have a hard time trusting her the cooking...

This Chana Masala is very tasty and not at all hard to make.  I doubled it because I had a larger can of Chick Peas to use and this kind of recipe keeps well in the fridge.  The only thing I noticed is that it thickens up quite a bit.  I had to add double the water again at the end.

Even though this has no "hot" spices, some people will still find this to be spicy if they aren't used to Indian food.

I'm trying Chaat next.  I miss my local Indian restaurants.  :-(

[topperarnold]

This will become a regular at our house!