Curry bean dip

[eve11]

Ingredients:
--About 2 cups leftover sauce from Quick Chicken Curry (I made this using whole chicken thighs so the sauce was basically garbanzos, spinach, onions, yogurt, tomato paste and the spices)
--1 10-oz can garbanzo beans
--1 8-oz package cream cheese
--About 1 tsp Swad Mint Chutney (compliments of wishkey: this stuff is freakin awesome)

Add sauce and garbanzos to a food processor and blend until it's as smooth as you want. Add cream cheese in chunks and continue blending. The cream cheese may stay in clumps, this is okay. Mix in mint chutney. Put mixture into a small crockpot or on a stove on low heat to blend, warm it up and get all the cheese to melt to the right consistency. Serve warm or cold, with pita or baby carrots or chips or other good stuff.

Comments

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

That sounds spectacularly yummy!

[eve11]

It's pretty good :) I brought it to the superbowl party on Sunday and people seemed to like it :) I think I need to find a way to make it a little thicker when it is warm, though. It's a good consistency cold but a little too sauce-y when warm.

[lem0nb0mbs.livejournal.com]

That chutney (which is actually mint-cilantro chutney) my favoritest crack in the world. And it doesn't even remotely involve chocolate!

[eve11]

I can see why. It goes great with a lot of stuff. I think this is going to be a new staple addition to my pantry.

[jdecay.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good!

[eve11]

yeah, and it's vegetarian too :) Well, if you don't use chicken in the original curry. And if you sub in something non-dairy for the yogurt in the curry sauce and use silken tofu instead of cream cheese it would probably make a good vegan dip too :)

[apb-age.livejournal.com]

they do make soy cream cheese and soy soy cream at Giant Eagle. i get it for B. for those that may be grossed out, it tastes the same. i don't even buy the real stuff any more. I used the cream cheese in one of those "pretend" cheese cakes at Christmas with the cool whip. it was realy good. gussied it up with some lemon zest and vanilla.
your dip sounds tasty.

[eve11]

Ooh, the cheese cake sounds good :) I'll keep the soy stuff in mind. And I'd certainly reccommend the curry dip, especially if I can figure out how to make it a little thicker when it's warm. It sounds like a crazy mix of a lot of spices and flavors, but it gives a pretty good ensemble. And the cream cheese and extra garbanzos cut the heat of the curry sauce too, so it's not quite as spicy as just serving over rice.