Get able to fall in love with this curried chickpea bowl! We’re speaking tremendous flavorful curry-spiced chickpeas, a easy chopped salad, and our superb yum sauce, all served over your favourite grain.

You’ll be making this curried chickpea bowl on repeat (we all know we do!). We’re at all times on the lookout for new methods to get pleasure from chickpeas, and these bowls are an ideal addition to our assortment. They’re fast, simple, and filled with taste! See all of our chickpea recipes!
These bowls are a weeknight dinner staple in our home. They’re so satisfying with a base of rice or quinoa, spiced chickpeas, salad, and our home sauce. In search of extra scrumptious bowl recipes? Try our tahini lemon quinoa bowls! And should you’re a chickpea fan like us, you’ll additionally love this cauliflower chickpea salad and this smashed chickpea salad.
Key Components
- Rice or Quinoa: Like different Buddha bowl recipes, you’ll be able to select the bottom relying on what you’re keen on or have readily available. Rice, quinoa, and different cooked grains are all glorious choices. I particularly love these curried chickpeas with our coconut rice. For my tips about cooking quinoa, right here’s how to cook quinoa. If you wish to lower down on the carbs, substitute the rice or quinoa for salad greens or cauliflower rice!
- Chickpeas: You should utilize drained canned chickpeas or home-cooked chickpeas for this recipe. For my tips about cooking dried chickpeas, right here’s how to cook chickpeas.
- Spices: The spice mixture for these chickpeas (garam masala, turmeric, garlic powder, and onion powder) offers them a heat, fragrant, and barely earthy taste, impressed by my favourite Indian chicken curry.
- Tomato Paste: We roast our chickpeas with the spices, a little bit of oil, and only a tablespoon or two of tomato paste, which supplies them additional taste and an exquisite colour.
- Cucumber and Bell Pepper: I like one thing recent and crunchy, so I mix diced cucumber and pink bell pepper for my salad. Be at liberty to make use of your favorites! Cherry tomatoes, shredded carrots, or chopped spinach can be scrumptious additions. This chopped cucumber tomato salad would even be glorious.
- Sesame Yum Sauce: This sauce has been a household favourite for years. It would sound like an uncommon mixture, however belief me, it’s magical. The mayo (or your selection of vegan mayo or plain yogurt) offers creaminess, whereas the Dijon mustard provides a tangy kick. Toasted sesame oil tastes nutty and is filled with umami, and the rice vinegar brightens the whole lot up. A splash of sizzling sauce provides a contact of warmth, and the non-compulsory ingredient – a splash of pickle juice – ties all of it collectively fantastically. The outcome? A creamy, brilliant, toasty, and totally irresistible sauce that takes these bowls to the following degree!

Curried Chickpea Bowls
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We pack within the taste for these curried chickpea bowls. Because of a scrumptious mixture of spices, together with garam masala, turmeric, and garlic powder, in addition to a easy creamy sauce to drizzle on prime, you’ll return to this recipe many times. We definitely do.
Serves 4
You Will Want
Chickpea Bowls
3 cups cooked cooked rice, cooked quinoa, or coconut rice
2 (15oz) cans chickpeas or 3 cups (500g) cooked chickpeas
1 tablespoon avocado oil or vegetable oil
1 scallion, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons garam masala
1 teaspoon floor cumin
1/2 teaspoon floor turmeric
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1 1/2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 ½ cups finely diced cucumber
1 ½ cups finely diced pink bell pepper
Sesame sauce, recipe under
Sesame Yum Sauce
3 tablespoons mayonnaise, vegan mayonnaise, or yogurt
1 ½ teaspoons Dijon mustard
1 ½ teaspoons toasted sesame oil
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
2 to three dashes sizzling sauce
Pinch salt
Sprint dill pickle juice, non-compulsory
Instructions
1Warmth the oil in a large skillet over medium-high warmth. Stir within the scallion, spices, and tomato paste. Cook dinner, stirring the spices across the pan, for one minute.
2Drain the chickpeas, after which add them to the pan. Add 1/3 cup of water, and cook dinner till the chickpeas are heated via and the sauce sticks to the chickpeas. Season to style with salt. Put aside when you make the salad.
3For the salad, stir collectively the cucumber, bell pepper, and a pinch of salt.
4If wanted, reheat your rice or quinoa.
5Make the sauce. Stir sauce components collectively till properly blended. Style, after which regulate with salt, sizzling sauce, or vinegar.
6To make the bowls, make a mattress of rice or quinoa on the backside of a large bowl, after which prime it with curried chickpeas and the cucumber salad. Serve with sesame sauce drizzled on prime.
Adam and Joanne’s Ideas
- The vitamin details supplied under are estimates.
Vitamin Per Serving
Serving Dimension
1/4 of the recipe
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Energy
541
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Whole Fats
16.8g
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Saturated Fats
2.4g
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Ldl cholesterol
4.3mg
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Sodium
208.7mg
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Carbohydrate
80.6g
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Dietary Fiber
11.2g
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Whole Sugars
9.8g
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Protein
15.6g
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