Winter at the Cortijo: Vegan food for the olive harvest

At certain times of the year when there’s not much growing except kale and cabbage, it’s good to have some different recipes for what to do with kale.
For a good part of the year, we have volunteers coming to stay with us to help us with the farm and most of them come through Workaway. Our first ever workawayer was Tiffany from New Zealand. This recipe for a vegan kale and chickpea curry popped up on her Facebook feed the other day – I think it was posted by her mum.
The original recipe is taken from the Cooking Light website with a few modifications: as I was cooking for 6 people, and we’ve got masses of kale, I used a large bowl of chopped kale (almost an entire colander), more chickpeas and different spices.

Vegan Kale and Chickpea Curry
2018-12-08 13:51:47

Serves 6
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Ingredients
- 1 large bowl of chopped kale
- 1 large onion, roughly chopped
- 1 large red pepper, roughly chopped
- 2 x 400g jars cooked chickpeas
- 1 can coconut milk
- 3 heaped tablespoon smooth peanut butter
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon chill powder
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 lemon, juiced
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Heat some extra virgin olive oil in a large frying pan and fry the onions until soft.
- Add the red pepper and continue to fry for a further couple of minutes before adding the garlic and ginger.
- Sprinkle over the spices and heat for another 30 seconds or so.
- Add in the kale and mix well.
- Cover the pan and let the kale wilt down.
- Stir in the peanut butter.
- Add the chickpeas and coconut milk and heat to a gentle simmer.
- Cover and leave for about 15 minutes.
- Squeeze over the lemon juice.
Notes
- Serve with brown basmati rice.
Cortijo de la Plata https://cortijoblog.com/
Looks great 🙂