Cheap, fast, quick and nutritious! I was impressed by Sunbasket's okra and chickpea curry recipe. Like most curries it tastes as good or even better as leftovers. Sunbasket is a US-based meal kit subscription company. Even though I'm not in the US and therefore not a subscriber, Sunbasket publishes its recipes online for free for everyone. The only downside I can think of is the recipe is a little too light and low-fat. I drizzled a teaspoon of heart-healthy extra virgin olive oil right before eating. Other changes I made to the original Sunbasket recipe are I substituted the naan for white jasmine rice; jalapeno for red pepper flakes; and skipped the cilantro because I didn't have it but I don't recommend that move because the flavor suffered for it.
Ingredients:
cooking oil (Canola for example)
2 small yellow onion, minced
2-inch piece ginger, minced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon garam masala Indian spice mix
1 teaspoon red chili flakes
600 grams okra, tips and tops trimmed, and stalk cut to 1" pieces
6 tomatoes, chopped
2 cans chickpeas (around 500 grams)
small bunch cilantro, stems discarded, leaved roughly chopped
extra virgin olive oil
Instructions:
1. Saute aromatics one at a time:
- Heat pan to medium high level.
- Add oil and onion. Saute until onion is semi-translucent and light brown and pan stops sizzling.
- Add garlic and ginger. Saute quickly until garlic ginger are uniformly mixed with onion .
- Lower heat to medium low. Add garam masala. Saute quickly until garlic ginger and onion are evenly coated with garam masala.
- Add red chili flakes. Saute quickly until all ingredients are evenly coated with red chili flakes.
2. Saute okra, tomatoes and chickpeas one at a time:
-Increase heat to medium high, add a teaspoon of cooking oil and okra and saute while briskly stirring until okra turns darker green and shiny.
-Add tomatoes and saute. Break the tomato chunks into smaller pieces with your spatula. Cook until tomato is reduced and has watery paste consistency
-Add cooked/canned chickpeas
3. Remove from heat. Serve with white rice. Garnish with cilantro and olive oil.
Price:
okra..... Php 71.50
tomato..... 39.52
onion..... 25.27
ginger..... 22
chickpeas..... 28
red chili flakes..... 1.00
garam masala..... 6.45
rice..... 20
213.74 for 4 servings
53.44 for each serving
Cost Saving Tips:
Buy garam masala and red chili flakes from Hummus Elijah Shopee store for P129 for 100 grams and Sjxspice Shopee store for P59 for 250 grams.
Buy okra from Puregold using ShopeePay P10 off piso vouchers. Pay each pack of okra as single transactions. Recipe uses around 4 packs so net saving is P36.
Buy dried chickpeas and batch cook at home. One kilo of dried chickpeas from Hummus Elijah Shopee store is P150 non-promo price, ~P120 sale price. Dried chickpeas increase in weight after soaking by a factor of 2.5.
Enjoy!
