Budget recipe week - chickpea curry

We had a great weekend celebrating my husband's 40th birthday. It involved a night out in Covent Garden eating at Tamarai restaurant (would highly recommend as the food was delicious) and then Pizza Express with the kids on Sunday.

So this week is detox week in lots of ways.....it's time to give the liver & the wallet a rest :-)

So for dinner today, we're going to be having cheap & cheerful chickpea curry.

3 cloves garlic, peeled & crushed
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 inch garlic, peeled & finely chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp tumeric
1 tsp black pepper
2 tins chickpeas
2 carrots, peeled and finely chopped
1 tin tomatoes
1 tsp tomato puree

Rather than chopping, I bunged the garlic, onion & garlic in my mini-chopper & whizzed them up.

Add them to a pan with a dash of oil with the cumin, tumeric & black pepper and saute for 5 mins.

Add the chickpeas & carrots and stir to coat in the spices. Cook for a few minutes.

Add the tinned tomatoes and the puree.

Cook for an hour, adding water when necessary to ensure it doesn't dry out