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Vegan Butter Chicken with Chickpeas and Cauliflower

February 3, 2018 by Sina 7 Comments

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This vegan butter chicken is one of my favorite comfort food recipes! It’s super creamy and incredibly rich without using butter! Instead of chicken this vegan butter chicken calls for chickpeas and cauliflower.  It’s sooo delicious and pretty easy to make!

Vegan Butter Chicken

I absolutely LOVE Indian food! There are so many delicious flavors going on and I love that they have so many vegetarian dishes. While butter chicken obviously isn’t vegetarian, you can just omit the chicken and still have the amazing mild curry flavors that make this dish so popular! Butter chicken has its roots in Punjabi cuisine and was first made in Delhi in the 1950s. Since then, it became super popular all over the world. No wonder, it’s just soooo good!!

Vegan Butter Chicken

As the name suggests, butter chicken usually calls for butter. Besides, cream can be used in the sauce or also for garnishing. However, you can still make an incredibly creamy curry sauce without the butter. I just used cashew butter to make my vegan butter chicken really creamy and rich. I read that cashew paste is also used in India as a thickener, so this seems like the perfect choice for a vegan version. If you don’t have cashew butter on hand, you can also use almond butter instead.

Vegan Butter Chicken

What You Need For This Vegan Butter Chicken

You can find all of the ingredients you need for this vegan butter chicken in any regular grocery store.

You need:

  • cooked chickpeas
  • cauliflower
  • garlic
  • ginger
  • garam masala
  • cumin
  • crushed tomatoes
  • cashew butter
  • coconut milk
  • brown sugar
  • one onion

We usually eat the vegan butter chicken along with Basmati or Jasmine rice and garlic naan bread. As always, you can find the full ingredient list and detailed recipe instructions in a separate recipe box at the end of this post.

I hope you like this vegan butter chicken with chickpeas as much as we do around here! It’s the perfect comfort food!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Sina – xx

 

You might also like this easy vegan chickpea curry with potatoes:

Easy Vegan Chickpea Curry with Potatoes

 

 

Vegan Butter Chicken

Vegan Butter Chicken with Chickpeas and Cauliflower

This vegan butter chicken is one of my favorite comfort food recipes! It's super creamy and incredibly rich without using butter! Instead of chicken this vegan butter chicken calls for chickpeas and cauliflower.  It's sooo delicious and pretty easy to make!
3.67 from 3 votes
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Course: Entrée
Cuisine: Indian
Prep Time: 8 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 23 mins
Servings: 3 servings
Calories: 355kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 3 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon chopped fresh ginger
  • 3 teaspoons garam masala
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 teaspoon brown sugar
  • 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
  • 3 tablespoons cashew butter
  • 1 cup canned coconut milk (full fat)
  • 1 28 oz can chickpeas (equals 2 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas)
  • 2 cups cauliflower florets
  • salt, to taste
  • black pepper, to taste

Instructions

  • Heat some oil in a large pan and sauté the onion for 2-3 minutes. Then add the garlic and the ginger and cook for one more minute. Stir in the garam masala, the brown sugar, and the cumin and cook for another minute until fragrant.
  • Then add the crushed tomatoes, the coconut milk, the chickpeas, the cauliflower florets and cook for 10 minutes.
  • Stir in the cashew butter and season with salt and pepper.
  • Serve over Jasmine or Basmati rice and sprinkle with fresh cilantro.

Nutrition

Calories: 355kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 999mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin C: 30% | Calcium: 6% | Iron: 38%
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Comments

  1. Donna Prytula

    August 13, 2019 at 12:10


    Delicious and easy to make!! I add a few extra vegetables though…

    Reply
  2. Danielle

    January 3, 2019 at 21:56

    Hi, this looks great but I’m new to the vegan scene… Is the coconut milk canned or is it like the creamer / carton you get in the milk isle. Sorry…

    Reply
    • Sina

      January 4, 2019 at 10:28

      Hi Danielle,

      No need to be sorry! ;-) I should have clarified that in the ingredient list. I used canned coconut milk for this recipe. Hope you like it! :-)

      Reply
  3. Kimber

    June 3, 2018 at 17:00


    This was even more delicious than the real thing! Great idea with the chickpeas.

    Reply
  4. Andy

    March 17, 2018 at 2:46

    In your write up you mention tomato paste, under YOU NEED, but then in the instructions the ingredients and directions don’t mention it.

    Reply
    • Sina

      March 17, 2018 at 22:46

      Oh sorry about that, Andy! Just checked. No tomato paste needed. :-)

      Reply
  5. Chickpeas iron-rich

    February 5, 2018 at 11:13

    Looks very tasty. I will try this recipe at home!

    Reply

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