No the title is not a mistype! This thermomix watermelon chickpea curry (rajasthani style) is inspired from my daughter Diana’s mission trip to India earlier this year. She messaged me that she had a watermelon curry and I may have laughed and said “yeah sure Diana – I think the jet lag & language barrier has you a little mixed up!” But then I was sent a menu that explicitly told me it was watermelon curry. (Good serving of humble pie given!)
So I set out to find some recipes and when she came home we spent some time taste testing different recipes. We finally ended up really enjoying this recipe from Healing Tomato. The ingredients are all but the same but the method has been adapted for use in the thermomix. If you leave it to “rest” in your thermoserver while cooking your rice – like any curry, the flavours just develop some more.
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Ingredients
- 250g watermelon flesh
- 30g olive oil
- ½ tsp yellow mustard seeds
- 1 tsp black mustard seeds
- 1 tsp cumin, seeds
- 1 tsp Thai Chili crushed (sub: jalapeno peppers)
- 1 tsp garlic, powder
- 1 tsp ginger, ground
- 1 tsp red chilli, ground
- 1 tsp turmeric, ground
- 5-7 curry leaves
- 400g can chickpeas, drained
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cumin, ground
- ½ tsp ThermoFun Garam Masala
Instructions
- Place watermelon into TM bowl and puree 5 sec / speed 6. Set aside.
- Add oil and heat TM bowl 1 min / Varoma / speed 1.
- Add yellow and black mustard seeds and cook 45 sec / Varoma / speed 1.
- Add cumin seeds, Thai chilli, garlic, ginger, chilli powder, turmeric, curry leaves and chickpeas and cook 1 min / 80°C / speed 1 / Reverse.
- Add watermelon, salt, cumin and garam masala and cook 10 mins / 100°C / speed 1 / Reverse.
- Remove curry leaves.
- Serve with naan and rice.
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If you have enjoyed this recipe then please consider leaving a comment. It’s always refreshing to see comments from people that have tried a recipe and found it a success or tweaked it to suit.
WOW!! What a wonderful way to adapt my recipe! I am so impressed by it. I have never tried using thermomix. You know I am going to try this now. Looks very delicious! Thank you. 🙂
It is delicious! My recipe testers were very sceptical, but they were most surprised after making it! Thank you for sharing such a beautiful recipe. 🙂
Delicious! Used frozen watermelon as it needed using up. Didn’t have any black mustard seeds so used extra yellow. Will definitely make again!
Thanks Caroline – great to know it works with frozen watermelon too. 🙂
I’m wondering how many people this would feed – and whether there is room in the jug to increase quantities? Thanks.
Hi Sarah, approx. 4 serves. I haven’t tired to double it but there would be enough room in the TM bowl to do so. Add 20% more cooking time if you do try doubling it.