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Great recipe for Auntie's Cauliflower and Chickpea Vegetarian Balti. This Balti is a medium-hot curry with enough spice to warm and comfort but not so much as to bring out the sweats! This curry is the perfect counterbalance to a cold evening - with a poppadom, naan bread or basmati rice. - Mr.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have auntie's cauliflower and chickpea vegetarian balti using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Auntie's Cauliflower and Chickpea Vegetarian Balti:
- Take 1 whole head of cauliflower
- Make ready 1 red pepper
- Make ready 1 yellow pepper
- Take 3 white onions
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic
- Prepare 2 boxes or tins of chopped tomatoes
- Take 1 tablespoon tomato puree
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Turkish red pepper paste (optional)
- Get 1 long green Turkish pepper (optional)
- Get 3 tablespoons Patak's Balti curry paste
- Make ready 1 tablespoon cumin
- Prepare 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- Make ready 1 tablespoon tumeric
- Get 2 fresh Birdseye chillis
- Take 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Take to taste salt and pepper
- Get 1 litre boiling water
- Get 1 can cooked chickpeas, drained
Stir well, then add in the chickpeas, cauliflower and pepper. This will also steam the cauliflower. In this vegetarian riff on a popular Indian dish, we swap in cauliflower and chickpeas for the chicken in tikka masala. The cauliflower's nooks and crannies are particularly good at soaking up all the intense flavors of the sauce.
Instructions to make Auntie's Cauliflower and Chickpea Vegetarian Balti:
- Prepare by chopping the garlic, onions, peppers and cauliflower.
- Fry the oil and spices together over a medium heat.
- Add the garlic, onions and peppers. Fry until slightly brown. Add the Balti paste and stir throughly.
- Rinse the chickpeas in cold running water. Add chickpeas to the pot and reduce the heat.
- Dissolve the paste and puree in a litre of hot water. Add to the pot. Then add chopped tomatoes to the pot. Stir throughly.
- Add the cauliflower florets and stir throughly (ensuring the florets are fully submerged). Cook on medium for 3 hours in a slow cooker / multicooker. It should reduce by 15%. We recommend to serve with rice and steamed greens.
For a low carb or keto cauliflower salad, leave out the chickpeas and substitute with diced ham or turkey. Roasted cauliflower salad option: Roast the cauliflower tossed with a little olive oil, salt and pepper until tender and light brown on the edges. Then toss with the remaining salad ingredients. Add the rice, cauliflower and chickpeas, stirring to coat in the paste. Pour in the stock and stir.
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