Coconut Bean and Sweet Potato Curry

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Coconut Bean and Sweet Potato Curry

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This mild but tasty plant-based curry combines butter beans, chickpeas and sweet potato with coconut milk and flavourful spices. It’s naturally vegan, gluten-free and so quick and easy to make – perfect for a weeknight dinner. Like your curries extra spicy? Add a chopped chilli (or 2!) when cooking the aromatics.

  • Author: zenak
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 40 minutes
  • Yield: 6 1x
  • Category: vegan

Ingredients

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  • coconut oil or neutral oil
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 40 g ginger
  • 2 tsps curry powder
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp ground turmeric
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 1 tsp mild Kashmiri chilli powder
  • 1 large sweet potato, cut into 2cm pieces
  • 200 g cherry tomatoes
  • 400 ml vegetable stock
  • 1 x 400g tin butter beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 x 400g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • 1 x 400ml tin coconut milk
  • 200 g baby spinach
  • small handful of fresh coriander, roughly chopped

Instructions

  1. Heat a couple of tablespoons of coconut oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and beginning to brown, 5 to 7 minutes.
  2. Add the garlic and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute, then add the spices and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
  3. Add the sweet potato, cherry tomatoes, vegetable stock, butter beans, chickpeas and coconut milk and season very generously with salt.
  4. Turn the heat up to medium-high and bring the curry to a bare simmer. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the sweet potato is cooked through.
  5. Add the baby spinach and stir until wilted. You may need to do this in two batches, waiting for the first to wilt down before adding the next.
  6. Taste and season with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper. Top with the fresh coriander and serve with rice and/or flatbreads.

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Aisling Culley
1 year ago

Not super expensive, great flavour, and really easy to make. Absolute no brainier, great winter warmer!






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