Chickpea and Potato Curry

Sometimes I think the theme of this blog may really be cheap eats. Or perhaps more accurately, I want to eat something and we haven't made time to go to a grocery store in over a week what can I make with the things we do (and usually always) have around? This is clearly one of those times. I went to make dinner and said to myself, hmm, well lets look for chickpea recipes (dear god I love the internet). I found this recipe and thought to myself, 'the curry part sounds good, and we have a bunch of naan in the freezer, so yeah, deal' (my thoughts are prolific, I know). A few notes to less obvious changes I 'made': I did not use tomatoes or spinach, we didn't have any in the house and Lilly doesn't really like tomatoes or cooked spinach anyways. I don't even know what garam masala is, so instead of 2 teaspoons of that I used a teaspoon of curry powder and a teaspoon of masala tea powder, cause that makes sense, right? I definitely had more than a teaspoon of grated ginger, I cut off a little chunk to grate that turned out to be bigger than I bargained for, I would estimate it was a least a tablespoon, maybe a smidgin more. I added coconut milk. 

I mostly just followed the recipe....and forgot to take many pictures along the way, so here's a picture of most of the ingredients on my counter. 

One day I'll learn how to make naan, from what I understand it's not that difficult to make. But for now warming up some pre-made naan in the toaster oven is more than sufficient. 

All in all, I'd make this again. Even Lilly seemed to like it as much as me! In the future however I would not use as much, if any added salt, it came out overly salty, which was fine while eating it with the naan, but still. I have a couple theories as to why that is: while I did rinse the chickpeas, they probably were still hella salty on their own, also since I didn't use tomatoes and spinach it maybe threw off how salty everything turned out. Also I did use the optional cayenne pepper, not an entire 1/4 of a teaspoon, but almost that much, and it was at the perfect level of spiciness for me, and barely noticeable spiciness for Lilly.  Next week I'll try and post something non-food related, no promises though! See you next Tuesday!