Sweet potato & chickpea curry with rice
A Indian dinner for the galley that copes with rough seas, one pot, can be made ahead and frozen, needs no fridge, about 40 min hands-on.
- Dinner
- Indian
- ⏱ 40 min
- 🌊 Sea tolerance 4/5
- vegan
- vegetarian
- pescatarian
- gluten-free
- kosher
- halal
Ingredients
For 4 servings (one normal-appetite adult each). Per serving in brackets.
- Sunflower / vegetable oil40 g (10 g)
- Onion (brown/yellow)200 g (≈ 2 onions) (50 g (≈ 0.5 onion))
- Garlic (bulb)16 g (≈ 0.5 bulb) (4 g)
- Garam masala8 g (2 g)
- Ground turmeric2 g (0.5 g)
- Sweet potato600 g (≈ 4.5 sweet potatos) (150 g (≈ 1 sweet potato))
- Canned chickpeas320 g (80 g)
- Canned chopped tomatoes320 g (80 g)
- Coconut milk (can)320 g (80 g)
- White rice (long grain)280 g (70 g)
Method
- Soften the chopped onion and garlic in the oil, 5 minutes; stir in the spices for 1 minute.
- Add the diced sweet potato, chickpeas, tomatoes and coconut milk; simmer 20 minutes until the potato is tender.
- Serve with rice.
In the galley
- Copes with a seaway — 4/5 for sea tolerance.
- Stow the main ingredients in dry stores — nothing here needs a fridge.
- Make ahead: cook in port and freeze in portions.
- One pot — less to secure, less washing-up with fresh water.
- No listed allergens in our data — still check the labels of what you buy.
Per serving
⚡ Night-watch fuel · 🌾 Fibre-rich
- kcal
- 787
- protein
- 16 g
- fat
- 30 g
- carbs
- 117 g
- sugar
- 14 g
- fibre
- 14 g
From USDA FoodData Central, raw weights — a planning guide, not a label; a few values use a close stand-in.
Nutrition per serving: USDA FoodData Central — SR Legacy (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), weighted by each ingredient's grams — a planning guide, not a label. Quantities follow standard portion sizes; this recipe hasn't been tested in a real galley yet. How we make recipes