Chickpea, Quinoa and Turmeric Curry

 

Over the past couple of weeks I have been eating through all the bought-in components of meals and almost 'ready meal' style things in the freezer ... garlic Kyiv's, fish portions and the like ... so I have now made some space to be able to make up batches of the meals that I want to eat on a regular basis.  

The first one that I chose to cook up was a batch of Deliciously Ella's Chickpea, Quinoa and Turmeric Curry.  It's a recipe that I've used for years and is always a favourite. It also made a good dent in my stash of out of date tins in the top cupboard.

I added another tin of potatoes to the mix after taking the photo as I do like the potatoes in this curry, and using up the tins meant that I didn't have to do the peeling, chopping and cooking potatoes part of the recipe to start me off.  😀

It's a really simple recipe, and once everything is in the pan it can just be left to it's own devices while you get on with something else.  I do add the chickpeas right at the start of cooking, not later like the recipe suggests, as I like them to get a bit softer, and I also use frozen pellets of spinach to cut costs a bit.

It makes a huge pan full of curry, so I had one portion straight away, cooking enough rice for another meal after this one.

Once the curry was completely cooled I made up a 'homemade ready meal' with the rest of the rice to pop into the fridge, and portioned the rest of the curry out between four takeaway style containers which all went into the freezer.

Now I'm pondering on the next batch of ready meals ... I think it will be a lentil Bolognese style mix.  This could be eaten on pasta, on a baked potato or used as the base for a shepherds pie.   Having some tasty home-cooked meals all ready to go will make for easy cooking evenings when we have to get busy with new home renovations in the coming months.  While I don't mind an occasional 'real' takeaway, this will really help to keep costs down.

Sue xx