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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Watermelon Chickpea Curry (Rajasthani Style) - ThermoFun
Ingredients
- 250g watermelon flesh
- 30g olive oil
- ½ teaspoon yellow mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon cumin, seeds
- 1 teaspoon Thai Chili crushed (sub: jalapeno peppers)
- 1 teaspoon garlic, powder
- 1 teaspoon ginger, ground
- 1 teaspoon red chilli, ground
- 1 teaspoon turmeric, ground
- 5-7 curry leaves
- 400g can chickpeas, drained
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin, ground
- ½ teaspoon 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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Mel says
This was delicious. I used laddie lime leaves instead of curry leaves and just yellow mustard seeds as that was all I had. So quick and easy and yummy.
thermofun says
Thanks Mel, great to hear you enjoyed it. :)
Sarah says
I'm wondering how many people this would feed - and whether there is room in the jug to increase quantities? Thanks.
thermofun says
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.
Caroline says
Delicious! Used frozen watermelon as it needed using up. Didn't have any black mustard seeds so used extra yellow. Will definitely make again!
thermofun says
Thanks Caroline - great to know it works with frozen watermelon too. :)
Healing Tomato says
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. :)
thermofun says
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. :)