There are so many things you can do with chicken, but lately, we’ve been loving this simple and traditional North Indian-style chicken curry. Made with everyday pantry ingredients, this quick and easy Indian curry chicken recipe is one more reason you’ll love cooking in your Instant Pot. Chicken curry, though it finds its origins in...
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Easiest & tastiest chick peas curry cooked in the Instant Pot… In the Instant Pot, dump & go recipes are the easiest to cook. All we have to do is add all the ingredients to the pot & pressure cook. For making this chickpeas curry, I just dumped everything into the pot & pressure cooked […]
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Broccoli Cheddar Soup is the kind of lick-the-spoon and scrape-the-bowl-clean meal we all deserve after a long day. Creamy, cheesy broccoli soup is a comfort food classic and it can be on your table in under 30 minutes from start to finish. This easy homemade version has the decadent taste and luscious texture you would...
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Chicken Tikka Masala is an Indian-restaurant favorite rich-creamy tomato-based chicken curry. Made with tender cooked chicken marinated in yogurt, red chili powder, turmeric, and garam masala, this EASY recipe is cooked in just 30 minutes using the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. This Recipe originally published in 2018 has been updated with new photos, a video,...
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A mildly spiced Indian curry, Chicken Korma is made with whole aromatic spices like cardamom, cloves, black pepper, and cumin that are simmered in a light and flavorful yogurt-based sauce. This flavorful curry along with pot-in-pot rice makes a wholesome and healthy Dinner in under 30 minutes using Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. This Recipe originally published...
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This is a delicious preparation of lamb using whole spices and a yogurt based seasoning without any onions or tomatoes. A quick and easy dish packed with flavour and goes well with naan, roti or basmati rice. You’d love this dish because it is full of flavour and taste. It is more or less like...
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“Sundal” a south indian delicacy is a delicious salad which is mostly enjoyed as a snack especially at the beach.
Strolling along the shore at the Marina Beach (Chennai, India) on a hot summer evening, all you would crave for is this “sundal”. It is a tongue tingling melange of boiled dried yellow peas tossed with chopped pink onions, grated fresh coconut, green chillies, green mango, ginger, cilantro, salt and drizzled with freshly squeezed lemon juice, then infused with flavour by tempering with mustard seeds, dried red chillies, curry leaves and asafoetida. Such a popular street snack to enjoy at the beach and so yummy!
This ‘sundal’ is usually made with dried whole yellow peas called ‘battani’ in tamil. If you don’t find it in the stores the best alternative is chickpeas. I prefer using the dried chickpeas to the canned ones even though it is more time saving and convenient. Canned food has always been my last priority for most of the food items as you know it not only contains preservatives but most of its nutrients are lost during the canning process, therefore are not as flavourful and tasty as well. It probably takes the same time to dump the dried chickpeas into the instant pot, add water and close the lid as it takes to open a can of chickpeas and rinse before using them. Why not make good choices and reap the health benefits by incorporating wholesome foods in our diet and avoiding canned foods?
It is best to hydrate the chickpeas prior to cooking. If they are soaked all the way through, then they not only swell up and soften evenly but also in less amount of time. It is much easier cooking them in the Instant Pot as it not only saves time but is so convenient. You could also pressure cook them in the Instant pot without soaking them but it would take longer – between 45 minutes to an hour, while pre soaked chickpeas are al dente tender in 35 minutes. Slow cooking them in the Instant Pot retains all their water soluble nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Pre soaking them and draining away the water does break down the complex sugars that produce gas but very slightly (upto 25%). I prefer not to drain out the soaking water to prevent the loss of the valuable nutrients.
With this ‘sundal’ are tagged so many memories too. Here is one …..
I remember, I still remember
the taste, the flavour
the whiff of the aroma
that hit our olfactory nerves
as we sat watching the waves
dancing in glee
bouncing on the shore
as if they were enjoying
our company!
Yes, I still remember
those little vendors
scooping out the ‘sundal’
with their little hands
while we sat waiting,
drooling with impatience
over this sensational concoction,
this melange of flavours
that stimulates your brain
and leaves you craving for it
over and over again!
But in all this ecstatic endeavour
little did we realize how hard
those little hands worked
to combat their dire needs
to help, support and provide
for their poverty stricken families.
They were little kids indeed
but burdened down
by so many responsibilities!!
Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients:
1 cup chickpeas
1/2 a medium onion
1-2 green chillies
1/4 cup cilantro chopped
1/4 cup coconut grated
1/3 cup green mango chopped or grated
1 inch piece of ginger julienned and chopped.
Juice of half a lemon
a pinch of asafoetida
a few curry leaves
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp ghee(clarified butter)
1 – 2 dried red chilies
Instructions:
1. Soak the chickpeas overnight or at least for 8+ hours to hydrate them to the core.
2. Place the soaked chickpeas in the Instant Pot and Pressure cook on manual for 30 – 35 minutes till they are soft but al dente. It is up to you to use the same water to cook or discard it. I prefer not to lose the valuable nutrients in the water so I use the same. Sauté till the chickpeas absorb all the water left in the Instant pot. If you forgot to soak them, just cover them up with boiling water and simmer on the stove till they are soft and tender. Or slow cook in the Instant pot.
3. Add to the boiled chickpeas, chopped onions, green chilli, ginger, cilantro, grated coconut, squeeze in the lemon juice and toss them we till they get mixed well.
4. Heat the ghee in a tadka (tempering) pan. When hot, crackle the mustard seeds, then add dried red chillies followed by curry leaves and asafoetida. Immediately pour the tempering over the chickpeas. Toss once more to mix well. Enjoy!
You may also like:
Spicy Carrot & Green Apple Salad
Egg Salad
Pineapple Kachumbar
Chickpea Sundal Salad
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Last year , the very first thing I did after buying Instant Pot was, on the way home I bought some cream cheese blocks to make this delicious Gingerbread Cheesecake. It was my dream to make cheesecake in Instant Pot and it came true during Thanksgiving. Also I made it again for Christmas as well.... 
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Ragi Millet Kozhukattai With Verkadalai Puranam / Ragi Millet Modaks (dumplings) With Sweet Peanut Stuffing : Before stepping into the detailed recipe I would like to apologize for not being active in blog and social medias for a while. I took a break in last May to help kids for their exams. And I couldn’t... Here is my simple recipe to make delicious curried stuffed eggplant also known as "Baingan Masala". This easy gluten-free and vegan curry has small baby eggplants stuffed with onion, ginger, garlic, and earthy spices. The eggplants are cooked in the Instant Pot for an authentic-tasting Indian curry that is ready in under 20 minutes. The...
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Aromatic and best-tasting shrimp pulao cooked in the Instant Pot… This is a perfect one-pot meal for lunch or dinner, cooked effortlessly in the Instant Pot. Easy to whip up & delicious pulao with shrimp; ready in less than 15 minutes. Instant Pot Shrimp Pulao- Easy & Delicious One-Pot Meal Print Prep time 3 […]
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Delicious South Indian dessert, sweet Pongal with jaggery… Sweet Pongal is a traditional South Indian dessert made with very simple ingredients like rice & moong dal, sweetened with jaggery & topped with ghee roasted cashew nuts & raisins. This is made during festivals like Pongal- the Indian harvest festival. If a dish has rice, lentils […]
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Perfect one-pot dish with chicken & tapioca or yuca… Tapioca or yuca or cassava is a tropical root vegetable, can be turned into a variety of delicious dishes. In Kerala, India tapioca is a staple food as it’s grown abundantly. It goes along with literally everything, fish, chicken, beef, mutton, shrimp, etc. One of the […]
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Chicken cooked in an amazing onion-tomato-cashew nut-poppy seeds gravy… This is a finger-licking delicious curry, the gravy is just incredible. I cooked this in the Instant Pot, cooked the onion-tomato masala in saute setting, pureed the gravy & pressure cooked the chicken in the gravy. Absolutely delicious curry, and can be served with rice, ghee […]
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Whole chicken pressure cooked in the Instant Pot & then pan-fried, along with an amazing gravy… For special occasions, I love to cook whole chicken & it will make a showstopper dish. For New year’s eve dinner, I made this whole chicken along with a delicious gravy & ghee rice. I always marinate the whole […]
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