This Quick and Easy Chickpea Curry is bound to keep you warm on these cold Winter nights.
Quick and Easy Chickpea Curry
This Quick and Easy Chickpea Curry is one of my favorite recipes to cook when we’re short on time BUT also looking for a hot, Indian spice, flavor-bursting meal. Sometimes (especially in the winter) I look towards my Mom’s cooking a little more often. Growing up, Indian food at our house was always a hot meal at the end of the day. This dish captures all that cozy goodness using our usual suspects including a warming dose of turmeric, garam masala, and chili powder.
This Cilantro-Free Chimichurri Sauce has been a go to garnish in my household.
Cilantro-Free Chimichurri
We here at The Happy Haandi are having a sauce moment.
Those who know me well know that I strongly dislike (i.e. HATE) cilantro. Apparently, it’s a genetic thing but it’s always made me weary of green sauces because cilantro tastes like dish soap. This sauce is changing my mind – I am here to proudly introduce a Cilantro-Free Chimichurri Sauce.
I actually learned the basics behind this recipe while on vacation in Key West. I found this sauce on my fish at a small, whole-in-the-wall Cuban restaurant. After a lot of worries, I tasted a tiny bit only to be completely knocked off my feet. The sauce was savory and herby, with a good acidic punch, and paired so wonderfully with my blackened fish and rice. After chatting with the owner and chef, she let me know that her chimichurri was made with almost all fresh parsley and a little cilantro – which blew my mind. After a couple of tries at home, I think I perfected my Cilantro-Free Chimichurri Sauce. I’ve since used this chimichurri sauce with over-seared swordfish steak, alongside chorizo, as well as any and all tacos, and love it. Scroll down to see the recipe!
This Traditional Indian Raita only requires a few ingredients.
Traditional Indian Raita
Traditional Indian Raita is a basic side dish often served at home and in restaurants. Often, it’s served as a cooling counterpart to spicy Indian dishes. My Mom would often offer raita to me when I complained about the heat of a dish when I was younger. The most basic of all raitas just need yogurt and some basic spices but raita can also be dressed up in so, so many ways. I couldn’t begin to tell you all the different ways here! You can do a variety of savory raitas that use onion, spinach, cucumbers, or tomatoes as well as sweet raitas that are garnished with fruit like mangos. Everyone has their go-to – my mom often makes cucumber raita when she hosts dinner parties but she will make spinach raita for me when I come home (it’s my favorite).