Vegan Chickpea Curry Recipe – Slow Cooker

Published by: April 10, 2023. Latest version: April 10, 2023 by: Ginny McMinns

This vegan chickpea curry recipe is made from scratch with very little effort. The thick sauce is made in the slow cooker and then you spoon it over the rice

Are you looking for a recipe that you can put in the slow cooker in the morning and not be afraid to cook all day?

This easy vegan chickpea curry recipe will do just that.

Test it when you get home and see if you want it more ‘saucy’. You can add a cup of water in the last hour or two.

This will give time to cook and thicken with the remaining flavors.

When I made this recipe I wanted to make sure it could be made for a person who has to work or leave home for long hours. But…

If you’re going to be around the house and you’re late to start it, you can definitely cook it on high for 4 to 5 hours. That would be great too.

In my early years of cooking, I was confused by the term curry. I found a recipe that didn’t even have curry. What? Well, it turns out curry has several meanings.

What is curry?

Curries are many things. It comes in all kinds of shapes and forms.

For this recipe, it’s a spicy spicy curry-like sauce that goes very well with noodles and rice. No curry included. Curry is actually a sauce.

Curry powder is probably sitting in your cupboard right now. It is made with many different spices and comes to us in a small jar to help give depth to our cooking.

You can buy curry paste in jars and they come as red curry paste and green curry paste. A little bit goes a long way.

There are also small curry cubes used in Japanese cooking. Not so spicy but a great addition to sauces.

So you see there is no reason to ever get confused. You are now equipped with the information you need to speak ‘foodie’.

What sautéing oil should you use?

This brings me to another irony in the culinary world. Shouting!

I almost always fry my onions in oil. You don’t have to though. If you avoid oil for some reason, you can actually fry in water. Even other liquids such as vegetable broth.

You don’t want to overcook the onions though just a little bit to start with and then add a drop along the way if needed.

Mushrooms are not in this recipe but they are easier to saute without oil because they release so much water while cooking.

Don’t feel good? I just remembered I found another chickpea curry recipe on the blog. It is actually a vegetable curry although it contains many other vegetables.

This is also a super fast recipe. Only 30 minutes. But that’s for another day.

Auxiliary equipment:

6 Qt. Programmable Slow Cooker – It makes work life easier. It can be turned off in time and it’s safe to let dinner sit in the crockpot a little longer.

Garlic Press – I can never find mine so I chop up a lot of my garlic but this press sure is great when I can get my hands on it.

Measuring spoon – I like sturdy stainless steel the best.

It’s that simple. You know it’s the simple things in life that make everything better.

Since this is a slow cooker, this chickpea curry recipe makes so much that you might be lucky to have leftovers.

Freezing:

Go ahead and freeze what you have left. If you have extra rice, keep it in the fridge. Freeze separately though and it will give you more options for later.

You might want to serve the slow cooker chickpea recipe over noodles next time and maybe use rice with a coconut cream based curry. These are also delicious.

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