Vegan sweet potato, chickpea and spinach Curry

Hey everyone! So, last night, my brother came round to my house to visit me and my son, and I cooked us up an impromptu curry. Of course, it had to be vegetarian, but my brother is also vegan. 

I decided on a sweet potato, chickpea, and spinach curry. I had mine as pictured, with chips and poppadums as I'm not a huge fan of rice, and my brother had his with cous cous because he doesn't like rice either! 

Ingredients:

Vegetable oil

Garlic powder

Salt

Pepper

Medium Curry powder

Sweet potato (diced)

Onion (diced)

Can of chickpeas

Fresh spinach

Peas

Vegetable oxo cube

Can of chunky tomatoes

Coconut milk

Dried chives to garnish

I started by hearing a pan of vegetable oil (about two tablespoons) and adding a tbsp of garlic powder. I then added in the diced sweet potato chunks, onion, salt, pepper, and curry powder, and lightly fried these to a golden brown (you want them to be slightly crispy). Then I added in the chickpeas, and crumbled in an oxo cube with a little bit of water, and a full can of chunky chopped tomatoes. I then added the peas, and sat the spinach on top to let it wilt for a few minutes. After mixing all these ingredients together, I added in about half a can of coconut milk. I reduced the heat to a simmer and left the ingredients to combine for around six minutes - I fried up some chips and made the cous cous in this time! Once all cooked, I served the curry in a separate dish (I like to dip my chips in to it!) and garnished with chopped dried chives.

It was so flavourful and rich, and really packed the punch! I like my food to be slightly spicier than I can really handle so for me this was perfect! 

Blog soon,

Sam x