Chickpeas with Textured Soy Recipe
If you like Indian recipes, pay attention to this chickpeas with textured soybeans dish because we will use typical spices from this cuisine to give the dish a unique flavor.
Gram Masala is a spice mix that is commonly used in Indian and Southeast Asian cuisine. We are going to use this mixture to prepare a rich chickpea stew with a spicy touch. You can buy the gram masala spice mix in oriental food supermarkets. The composition of the mixture is variable and can be customized according to the region or dish, so another option is to prepare gram masala at home by roasting and grinding cumin, coriander seeds, cardamom, cloves, pepper, cinnamon, mustard seeds and chili peppers. You like spicy food.
Let’s go then with the recipe for chickpeas with textured soybeans and get ready to feel a little Indian at the table with this delicious vegan recipe.
Ingredients to make Chickpeas with textured soy:
- 2 cups of cooked Chickpeas
- ½ cup coarse textured soybeans
- 1 Carrot
- 1 green pepper
- 2 cubic centimeters of fresh ginger
- 3 Celery (stalks)
- 3 cups of vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon gram masala
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 pinch of salt
How to make Chickpeas with textured soybeans:
1 We will make this chickpea stew with textured soybeans following the flavors of Indian cuisine, so we will use different spices to give the dish a very special flavor.
So, the first thing we will do is soak the textured soybeans in a cup of hot vegetable broth for 20 minutes, drain and reserve.
2 We continue and cut the celery and carrot into slices, cut the pepper into small pieces, finely chop the ginger and separate the cauliflower into florets.
3 Heat a pot with oil and fry the celery with the ginger. Add the carrot and bell pepper and sauté until soft.
Add the cauliflower, the cooked chickpeas, the textured soybeans and the spices. Stir well and cover everything with broth. Cook for 10 minutes over medium heat and let stand.
Ginger and spices like gram masala are staple ingredients in Indian cooking.
4 We serve our chickpeas with textured soybeans and accompany them with a little basmati rice or Nan bread or any other side dish.
