Slow Cooker Chickpea Curry Recipe

Ginny McMeans

Published:

April 10, 2023

Last Modified:

April 26, 2023

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This Vegan Chickpea Curry Recipe is made from scratch with very little effort. The thick sauce is made in the slow cooker & then you just spoon it over rice

Are you looking for a recipe that you can put into the slow cooker in the morning and have no fear of it cooking all day long?

That is what this easy to make Vegan Chickpea Curry Recipe will do.

Do check it when you get home and see if you’d like it even more ‘saucier’. You can add another cup of water the last hour or two.

That will give it time to cook in and thicken with the rest of the flavors.

When I made this recipe I wanted to make sure it was one that could be made for a person who had to go to work or leave the house for many hours. But …

If you’re going to be around the house and you get a late start in getting this started you can definitely cook it on high for 4 to 5 hours. It will be great too.

In my early years of cooking, I got confused by the word curry. I came across a recipe that didn’t even have curry in it. What? Well, it turns out there are different meanings for curry.

What is Curry?

Curry is a lot of things. It comes in all kinds of shapes and forms.

For this recipe, it is the sauce as in a spicy spiced curry that mixes so well with noodles and rice. No curry included. The curry is actually the sauce.

Curry powder is probably sitting in your cupboard right now. It’s made up of many different spices and comes to us in a little jar to help us give depth to our cooking.

You can buy curry pastes 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 that are used in Japanese cooking. Not so spicy but a great addition to sauces.

So you can see there’s no reason to ever be confused. You are now armed with the information you need to talk ‘foodie’.

Do You Have to Use Oil in Sautéing?

This brings me to another quandary in the cooking world. Sautéing!

I almost always sauté my onions in oil. You don’t have to though. If you’re skipping oil for some reason you can actually sauté in water. Even another liquid such as vegetable broth.

You don’t want to boil the onion though so just a little bit to get them started and then add a drop along the way if needed.

Mushrooms aren’t in this recipe but they are even easier at sautéing with no oil as they release so much water as they’re cooking.

Doesn’t that look good? I just remembered I’ve got another chickpea curry recipe on the blog. It’s actually a Vegetable Curry though as it has many other vegetables included.

Overhead view looking down at two white plates. Each is split in half with Jasmine rice and cauliflower and carrots curry.

It’s also a super fast recipe. Just 30 minutes. But that’s for another day.

Helpful Tools:

6 Qt. Programmable Slow Cooker – this makes working life even easier. It can turn off on time and it’s still safe to let dinner sit in the crockpot a little longer.

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

Measuring Spoons – I like the strong stainless steel ones the best.

Slow Cooker Chickpea Curry Recipe with an overhead view of a bowlful of rich red sauced curry with white jasmine rice.

It’s that easy. As you know it’s the simple things in life that make everything better.

Since this slow cooker, chickpea curry recipe makes such a large quantity you may be lucky enough to have leftovers.

FREEZING:

Go ahead and freeze any that you have left. If you have extra rice freeze it too. Freeze separately though and that would give you more options for the future.

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