Comforting and slightly sweet vegan mango curry with chickpeas and spinach. The curry uses simple ingredients and only takes around 30 minutes to make.
With insufficient heating in one of the coldest cities of Australia, we rely on warm meals and snacks to heat us up. For us, curries and soups are a survival tool like Bear Grylls relies on his survivor kit. This vegan mango curry is exactly what we need every Winter!
Ingredients for this vegan mango curry
The ingredients are pretty simple. Basically you need:
- A heck load of garlic, onion and ginger
- Heaps of common spices, such as cumin, coriander and garam masala
- The legumes/vegetables to make up your curry. I used chickpeas, spinach and capsicum.
I like my curries super thick and less saucy so I didn't add much coconut milk/water. However, you can definitely add more liquid to suit your preferences.
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Chickpea and Spinach Mango Curry
Ingredients
Curry
- Any vegetable oil, as needed (substitute for water if avoiding oil)
- 1 (~100g) medium-size brown onion, finely chopped or minced*
- 5cm or 2-inch (~10g) knob of ginger, finely chopped or minced*
- 3 cloves (~10g) garlic, finely chopped or minced*
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 2 tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- 1 (~100g) medium-sized capisicum, chopped roughly
- 1 ½ cups (300g) chickpeas, cooked
- 1 ½ cups (300g) fresh or frozen mango, defrosted if frozen, then pureed
- ½ cup (60g) baby spinach leaves, loosely packed
- ¼ cup (65mL) coconut milk, canned or drinkable
- Pinch of any good quality salt
To serve (optional)
- Rice or naan bread, if desired
- Fresh coriander/cilanto
- Coconut milk, canned or drinkable
Instructions
- Heat a large fry pan over high heat and add the oil. Add the onion, garlic and ginger to the fry pan and saute for 5 minutes or until fragrant.
- Turn down the heat to medium. Add all the spices and saute for 5 minutes or until fragrant.
- Add the capsicum to the saucepan and saute for 5 minutes or until the outside of the capsicum is seared.
- Add the chickpeas and mango puree to the saucepan and mix. Add a dash or more of water until the curry reaches your desired thickness. Cook the curry until the capsicum is softened and the chickpeas are heated through.
- Add the fresh spinach, coconut milk and salt to the curry and cook for another 3 minutes. Remove the fry pan from the heat.
- Serve the curry warm with rice, naan, fresh coriander/cilantro and/or coconut milk. Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Notes
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This curry was absolutely delicious! One of the best I’ve made. I used creamer coconut instead of coconut milk as that’s what I had in and the consistency was lovely and thick. I also emitted the pepper as I didn’t have any and used frozen spinach.
Such a tasty, full of flavours dish! It was my first homemade curry, until now only ordered, so I really loved the way all ingredients mix together. I like the fact that it's creamy, sweet, but also a little bit spicy. Have added 1 chopped sweet potato in addition to the other ingredients.
Amazing that it was the first time you made curry! Sweet potato sounds lovely too. Thanks so much for your feedback Dora xo
I made this recipe and it is one of the best curries I’ve ever made! So delicious! I added 2 long red chillies, some snow peas and a couple of tablespoons of a coconut chilli hot sauce to the other ingredients, it is delicious! Definitely will be a regular recipe now! Thank you!
Aw that's awesome Amber! Love your additions too. Thanks so much for your feedback xo
This looks colourful AND delicious, as well as healthy. Yum!
I completely agree! They are perfectly nourishing and comforting foods! Thanks lovely xo
It was Delicious! I have put more chickpeas (almost double) and I left them to cook longer to be more tender. Ive serve it on bread with italian tomatoes on top. My family loved it, thank you!!
So glad to hear! And love your changes and tips too 🙂