This Instant Pot Chickpea Curry is a fast & easy weeknight meal that you can throw together in minutes using your electric pressure cooker. I love how flavorful it is!
The Chickpea Curry recipe is one of the first curry recipes I’ve made that doesn’t call for any sort of cream or dairy-substitute, like coconut milk. It’s a lighter, tomato-based curry that’s full of flavor and happens to be super simple to make.
This recipe calls for canned chickpeas to make it as fast as possible, but you can make Instant Pot Chickpeas from scratch before you get started!
If you’re still getting used to your pressure cooker, I’ve got loads of healthy Instant Pot recipes for you to try, all with step-by-step instructions. I know how intimidating the Instant Pot can be when you’re first getting started, so I also walk you through it in my video tutorials.
Also, be sure to check out The Fresh & Healthy Instant Pot Cookbook for recipes that are made easy-to-find whole food ingredients. There’s a photo and nutrition information for EVERY recipe in the book.
Instant Pot Chickpea Curry
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion , diced
- 1 small green bell pepper , diced
- 2 large garlic cloves , minced
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 2 (15-ounce) cans chickpeas , rinsed and drained
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can crushed or diced tomatoes (with juice)
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 1 cup sliced okra
- 1 cup packed kale leaves
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoons fine sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Juice of 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons cilantro leaves
Instructions
- Preheat the Instant Pot by selecting Sauté.
- Once hot, add the oil and onion and stir. Cook for 4 minutes until the onion is translucent and starting to brown. Add the bell pepper and garlic and cook for 2 minutes more.
- Add the curry powder and stir. Cook for 30 seconds before adding the chickpeas, tomatoes with juice, corn, okra, kale, broth, and maple syrup. Stir and secure the lid, moving the steam release valve to Sealing.
- Select Manual or Pressure Cook and cook at high pressure for 5 minutes.
- Once cooking is complete, let the pressure naturally release for 10 minutes. When the screen reads LO:10, you can move the steam release valve to Venting to release any remaining pressure.
- When the floating valve in the lid drops, it's safe to remove the lid. Add the salt, pepper, and lime juice. Stir and taste, adding more salt as needed.
- Top with cilantro leaves and serve over cooked rice. (By the way, you can cook a bowl of rice at the SAME TIME in your Instant Pot with this recipe, using pot-in-pot cooking.)
Nutrition
Per Serving: Calories: 119, Fat: 5g, Carbohydrates: 18g, Fiber: 2g, Protein: 2g
This recipe is adapted from The Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook.
Recipe Notes:
- Feel free to use any veggies you prefer or need to use up in your fridge– I imagine that you could use practically any vegetable you like. I personally don’t care for the texture of okra, so I used frozen peas instead.
- I served this curry with jasmine rice that I also cooked in the Instant Pot. To make it, I combined 1 cup dry rice with 1.25 cups of water and used the “Rice” setting. (12 minutes at low pressure.)
- As always, if you make a substitution to this recipe, please leave a comment below letting us know what worked for you, so we can all benefit from your experience.
Stove Top Directions:
Don’t have an Instant Pot? You can make this curry on the stove by simply sautéing the onion, bell pepper, and garlic in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add in the rest of the ingredients, as directed above, then bring the liquid to a boil. Lower the heat to a simmer and cover to let the flavors mingle for 15 minutes. Remove the lid, add in the salt, pepper, and lime juice, and serve over rice.
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I just made the Curry Chickpeas recipe in my Instant Pot. My husband does not like kale, so I substituted spinach. Wow! What great and tasty recipe. He even had seconds! I appreciate knowing about this great cookbook. Thanks, Megan.
I love your blog and your recipes never disappoint. Quick, healthy and really tasty. Just got the instapot as a birthday present and have been trying lots of things, some with success, but still on the learning curve. Your cookbook would be perfect!!
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I’m totally under-utilizing my Instant Pot. All I do is steam green beans, butternut squash, and eggs. On the other than, I have a growing list of fails: rice, popcorn, sauteed veggies….that darn saute function befuddles me every time.
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I am definitely going to ask my sister-in-law (who has an instapot) to make this for me. Looks delicious!
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Love curry. Looks delicious!
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I wasn’t crazy about this recipe, I felt that it needed more curry flavor and the canned tomatoes were too acidic. If I double the spices and use fresh tomatoes, do you think it would need extra liquid? Would like to try again with a few tweaks. It would be great to win a copy of your book so I can try more recipes!
I added some Garam Marsala spice at the end, mine has little to no seasoning when tasted at the end.
Will make again
Not bad, but had little flavor before the lime and cilantro. Couldn’t taste the curry. Added more curry, smoked paprika, garlic salt, and some cayenne at the end.
Would ♥️ To win the cookbook to try out this fabulous curry dish and other whole foods plant based recipes. Sounds yummy!
I have made this about 25 times already. I love this recipe! It’s full of flavor and easy to make.
I wanna make this but Is this dish spicy?
I don’t think it’s too spicy, but you can always start with less and add more to taste.
Sounds delish!