Spicing up your dairy-free dinner routine doesn’t need to be difficult. This quick vegan coconut curry recipe uses a simple combination of fresh cauliflower, carrot, and onion with everyday pantry ingredients. It’s a very flavorful, creamy, 30-minute or less meatless dish that also keeps well for meal prep!
Why You’ll Love this Vegan Coconut Curry Recipe
- Flavorful: The ingredients might be simple, but they come together into a fragrant, satisfying Indian curry.
- Creamy: Using coconut milk gives this dish a very rich finish without a drop of dairy.
- Nutritious: Balanced with fiber and meatless protein, this dish is also high in anti-inflammatory antioxidants.
- Fast & Easy: It can be prepared and cooked in 30 minutes or less! Put rice on to cook just before
- Meatless: Whether you follow a vegan or vegetarian diet, or simply want to work in some meat-free meals during the week, this vegan coconut curry has you covered.
- Budget-Friendly: You only need basic spices, inexpensive produce, and canned goods to make this delicious dinner or lunch!
Quick-Fix Meatless Meal Tips
During this hectic time of year, it can sometimes be a challenge to find time to make a nutritious dinner when we’re busy with a zillion other things. With a little planning, there are lots of ways to save time and get quick and easy meals ready. Here are just a few ideas shared with us by Robin Robertson, author of Quick-Fix Vegan:
- Make a large batch of white or brown rice and portion and freeze it to use as you need it.
- Keep your pantry stocked with a variety of canned beans, tomatoes, and other pantry staples and keep some frozen green peas, spinach, and other vegetables on hand as well.
- Plan some one-dish meals to save clean-up and make extra so you have leftovers for lunch or another dinner.
The following recipe for vegan coconut curry chickpeas incorporates all three of these tips and if you’re a fan of curry, then this recipe is definitely for you. It goes together in a flash in one saucepan and combines fresh cauliflower and other vegetables including frozen peas for color, canned tomatoes and chickpeas from the pantry, all swathed in a creamy rich coconut curry sauce. Serve over white or brown basmati rice (that you’ve cooked ahead) and dinner is served.
Special Diet Notes: Coconut Curry Chickpeas & Cauliflower
By ingredients, this recipe is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free, peanut-free, soy-free, vegan, vegetarian, and generally food allergy-friendly.
Vegan Coconut Curry Chickpeas and Cauliflower
Ingredients
Method
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the onion, cover, and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the carrot, cauliflower, and curry powder, to taste.
- Add the tomatoes and broth, cover, and cook until the vegetables are softened, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in the chickpeas, peas, coconut milk, salt, and pepper to taste.
- Cook uncovered until the flavors are well blended and the mixture thickens slightly, about 10 minutes longer.
- Serve hot.
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Notes
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13 Comments
My first time trying curry at home. This dish is so flavorful and the leftovers tasted even better! Thank you and I would like to try some more of your recipes.
I’m so glad it worked out well for you Kelly!
I am new to having several severe allergies. I am confused about the soy allergy. I have read that lentils and chickpeas are part of the soy family when allergic? Your recipe says ‘soy free’ yet uses chick peas. I really want to try this, but need to know about chickpeas. Are they part of the soy family!?
Hi Veronica, lentils, chickpeas, and soybeans are all part of the legume family of foods, but they aren’t the same food. Each food has it’s own specific proteins that you can be allergic to. It can be more common to react to a food in the same family, but this isn’t always the case. If you are concerned, then you should speak with your physician about getting allergy tested for other legumes, like lentils, chickpeas, and other beans. Nonetheless, this recipe is in fact, soy-free. But again, this is something that you should discuss with your physician. I can not advise you medically on what foods are safe for you. Good luck!
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Love this…I make it often and freeze it !!
Fantastic! So glad you are enjoying the recipe Daphne and thank you for sharing your feedback.
This is SOOO good! I have been making it every week. And I love having leftovers for lunch 🙂
Robin’s recipes are the best! I’m not surprised your loving it Sommer 🙂
I definitely agree with Pascale on the serving. I would say this serves 6 or 8 rather than 4, but leftovers are great! I had some problems with the consistency. Mine was very very runny in comparison to the picture. We actually ate it as a soup and the rice got saved for another day. Does the whole cup of stock always work for you? I feel for us it could have been completed omitted.
This is a delicious and easy recipe. I did have to season to taste by adding chicken bouillon and pickled vinegar (w/scotch bonnet- that I add to almost everything!) And I checked but 1 serving is almost 2 cups so half a serving was perfect for me.
Fabulous, and thanks for sharing your note about the serving size!
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