by Ina Wrobel
Do you miss some family meal when you were growing up? I do most of the times. Because of that reason and inspired by Indonesian curry soup, here I share you Tofu Chickpea Curry Soup. I have to adapt it to reduce the spiciness by using red bell pepper instead of chili pepper. Also just use ingredients that available here.
To make the meal ready faster, use the food processor to grind some seasonings. Use the pestle and mortar is a great option too, but it always takes time to make the seasoning paste this way.
5 from 6 votes
Tofu Chickpea Curry
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
40 mins
Course:Soup
Cuisine:Indonesian
Servings: 4
Author: Ina Wrobel
Ingredients
- 1 can chickpea, rinsed and drained
- 2 blocks firm tofu, cubed
- 2 cups frozen peas
- 1 tomato
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 onion, small size
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1-inch fresh turmeric or 2 tsp turmeric powder
- 4 stalks lemongrass, white part only
- 3 lime leaves/substitute with lime zest
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp white pepper
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 4 cups broth or water
- 5 tbsp oil
Instructions
Turn the stove to medium heat, put 3 tbsp oil in the frying pan, fry the cubed tofu until it has a slight crust on each side. Set aside.
In a food processor, put 2 tsp of oil, tomato, garlic, onion, turmeric and bell pepper, process until smooth, it is fine if there are some chunks on it.
Use the knife handle to bruise the lemongrass.
In a medium-size pan, saute the tomato mixture for about 5 minutes until it is fragrant and liquid evaporates.
Add tofu, chickpea, lemongrass, cumin, lime leaves (or lime zest) salt, white pepper and broth (or water). Simmer it for 10 minutes.
Add frozen peas, and coconut milk then simmers it for another 10 minutes.
Serve the curry soup with extra lime juice.
Recipe Notes
Bruising the lemongrass before cooking will release more of the flavor and fragrance.
This healthy Tofu Chickpea Curry Soup has a mild curry taste. A bowl of this curry soup will make you full, but you can choose to serve it with rice or rice vermicelli. It is one of comforting soup for a rainy day.
Try these tofu and green peas recipes for more vegan meal ideas:
- Eggplant Tofu Stirfry
- Minty Green Peas Salad
- Scrambled Tofu With Kale
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I love all things chickpea and Curry!! Never thought about adding tofu! Can’t wait to try this!
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Crafty For HomeYes please, I hope you like it as much as we do!
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I love that it uses coconut milk, so I can only imagine the silky taste. I love chickpeas and the fried tofu is tasty. Will try to do this soup on Sunday. I give a 5-star rating because the recipe is easy to follow. Yum, Yum.
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, you cheer up my day, I do my best to make it very easy to follow, please make sure uses the coconut milk NOT coconut beverage.
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I have never tasted a soup like this! Pinning your pretty pin to my All Things Recipes: Soup board! 🙂
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- Crafty For Home
Awesome thank you for pinning. It is an easy and refreshing soup!
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- Karen
This looks soooo delicious!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, yes it is, refreshing taste.
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Wow this sounds like such a good recipe! I actually have all the ingredients! Curries are one of my favorites!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, it is refreshing taste, yes please try this curry soup, and please let me know how it goes. I love curries too.
Yummy! Since going vegan, I’ve been looking for great meals to make. This is definitely one of them. Thank you for sharing.
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, yes it is one of vegan inspired meal! I do too an occasional vegan, so I love these type of food as well!
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This looks delicious! I am so pinning this!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, it does delicious and fresh meal! Thank you for pinning!
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Seems like a very nice recipe, I think I’ll give it a go 🙂
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, yes please give it a try. It is a light meal but still full of protein!
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I love tofu and chickpeas! It is so good and so yummy! I’ll cook it later.
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- Crafty For Home
It does yummy, I can say on every savory recipe also on some sweet ones. Yes please try it, I am sure you will love this too!
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Yes yes yes! I have this almost everyday for lunch! Instead of Tofu, they use Paneer. So happy for this recipe!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, I am glad you like it. oh I have never try Paneer, I am sure it will be so tasty on curry!
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Yum! This looks so good and I love chickpeas!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, it does delicious, zesty and fresh! Chickpea is perfect on curry!
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This sounds amazing! I am a huge fan of coconut milk, fried tofu, annnnnd chickpeas! I will have to try making this easy recipe this weekend! I’ll let you know how it goes. The flavor combination is mouthwatering!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, yes please let me know how it goes, I hope you like it too!
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This looks beautiful and delicious! I’ve never cooked with tofu before, so this will be a first!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, tofu will take the flavor from any seasonings, you could always replace it with chicken or shrimp if you prefer.
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This soup sounds ideal for Fall, my mum is vegetarian so this will be perfect!
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- Crafty For Home
It does, oh I hope she like it too!
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Stumbled onto this recipe. I’m not a tofu lover but think i’ll try this one out tonight!
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- Crafty For Home
Thank you, you could replace it with chicken instead if you prefer.
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Mind if I make this with chicken instead of Tofu? I just do not like the texture of it! haha Otherwise, it sounds delicious!
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- Crafty For Home
Yes, absolutely, you can replace it with chicken or shrimp or even beef, I understand some people don’t wish to have tofu on their meal, that’s why you can substitute the ingredients on this recipe.
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