Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, squash & chickpea curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have squash & chickpea curry using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Squash & chickpea curry:
- Make ready 1 onion, chopped
- Get 1-2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Make ready 1 small Butternut Squash, peeled, deseeded & cut into cubes
- Take 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- Take 1 tin chickpeas, drained & rinsed
- Get 400 ml vegetable stock
- Make ready 4 blocks frozen spinach
- Prepare 1-2 tsp curry powder (depending on how hot it is/how you like it!)
- Get salt & pepper
Most squash is technically classified as a 'pepo,' which is a one-celled, many-seeded berry with a hard rind. There are more than a hundred types of squash that are known. They all belong to the same genus, that is, Cucurbita. Pick summer squash when it's small and tender, not big and seedy.
Instructions to make Squash & chickpea curry:
- Place a large frying pan (or saucepan or wok) over a medium heat with 2 tbsp oil. Cook the onion for 2 minutes then add the garlic & cook for another minute before adding the squash. Stir in the curry powder after 5 minutes. - Pour in the stock & tomatoes, stir well then season with salt & pepper & simmer for a few minutes then add the spinach allowing it to melt a little before stirring.
- Add the chickpeas leave to simmer again, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until the squash is tender. - Serve with rice or naan bread.
And keep picking to keep the harvest going! Hidden beneath the hard, nubbly skin is a delicious yellow flesh that's both savory and sweet. The flesh is high in sugar but sometimes mealy, which means it's best pureed (as a pie filling) or mashed. The Definition of Squash: The fruits of various members of the gourd family, which fall into two classifications, summer squash and winter squash. Squash definition is - to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush.
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