Chickpeas With Pumpkin, Lemongrass and Cilantro

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This stew combines warming spices and starchy vegetables with creamy coconut beverage and the crisp wound of citrus writer and chilies. Like galore dishes of this type, it tastes adjacent amended the adjacent day, aft the flavors person melded and mellowed.

Serve with brownish basmati atom oregon different atom of your choice. Don't skip the lime wedges, whose foodstuff adds a invited popular of flavor.

Before you adhd the mustard effect and cilantro, the stew tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week oregon frozen for up to 2 months. Defrost and vigor earlier finishing the recipe.

Ingredients

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Servings: 6-8 (makes astir 7 cups)

3 stalks lemongrass, pugnacious outer leaves discarded
4 cloves garlic, smashed
2 -inch portion peeled caller ginger root, coarsely chopped
2 tablespoons positive 1 spoon peanut oil
2 mean yellowish onions, finely chopped (about 3 cups)
2 teaspoons crushed coriander
2 teaspoons crushed turmeric
Seeds of 6 greenish cardamom pods, lightly crushed
2 tiny reddish chile peppers, stemmed and finely chopped
3 cups cooked oregon no-salt-added canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed (from 2 cans)
2 pounds caller pumpkin, peeled, seeded and chopped into 1-inch chunks (may substitute butternut oregon acorn squash)
1 cupful no-salt-added store-bought oregon homemade rootlike broth (see related recipe)
13 1/2 ounces canned coconut beverage (1 3/4 cups)
1 tablespoonful yellowish mustard effect (see headnote)
1/2 cupful lightly packed caller cilantro leaves, chopped, positive much for garnish (see headnote)
2 limes, quartered, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
280
Fat
16 g
Saturated Fat
10 g
Carbohydrates
30 g
Sodium
35 mg
Protein
8 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch," by Nigel Slater (Ten Speed Press, 2011).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published March 10, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026