Comments on: Easy Chana Masala Recipe

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:26:30 +0000

Hi Maerong, Yay for corgi love! Please email me at thechiclife at gmail dot com to discuss your ideas. Thanks!

By: maerong

maerong — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:00:35 +0000

Hi Diana,

Thank you for sharing this recipe. I am actually writing about myths about Indian food and would love to share this article if you don’t mind.

P.S. I just started liking corgis since my best friend has one. I was afraid of dogs for so many years!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:07:37 +0000

Hi Janet, I’m so happy to hear that this recipe fit what you were looking for! If I’m ever in Sunnyvale, I’ll have to check out the Spice Hut. It sounds like a great restaurant.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Diana

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:46:03 +0000

We were recently in Sunnyvale,CA and had THE BEST EVER Channa Masala at “The Spice Hut”. My family adores Indian food but I’m a relative newbie making it. I vowed to try,try and try again to find a recipe to replicate the one from “The Spice Hut”. I had tried a few Channa Masala recipes in the past but they didn’t cut it. This recipe is SUPERB. We love it! Thank you so much for making my search so very easy. It rocks!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:58:22 +0000

I love Indian food, and yet have always been intimidated to cook it because of it’s seemingly complex flavor profiles. I had all but given up hope on making my own chana masala, until I stumbled upon your site . . .

This is it: the perfect recipe that is easy to make and tastes like it came straight from an authentic Indian restaurant. My intimidation has instead become enthusiasm, and my craving has thus been sated.

I followed this recipe step by step until the end; rather than leave them whole, I mashed the chick peas to expose the peas to the full-flavors. I then allowed the chana masala to sit for about an hour before reheating and eating it over a bed of organic quinoa. Absolute perfection. Perhaps next time I’ll make some vegan naan to accompany it.

Thank you for helping me conquer what I thought was once impossible.

(Now, if you come up with an easy vegan palak paneer recipe, I’ll have officially arrived in heaven.)

Thanks, Diana! I look forward to making more of your vegan recipes.

By: Apurva mane

Apurva mane — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:18:40 +0000

I like this recipe..

By: Kayla

Kayla — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:34:08 +0000

Loved this recipe! So easy and it tasted so genuine. I feel like I just made traditional Indian!
This is a great blog. I will check it out again.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:00:56 +0000

Wonderful! I’m so glad to hear that both of the recipes worked! Thank YOU for checking out my recipe.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:25:31 +0000

What a delightful dish! I tried it tonight (including the naan) and it was a home run! Thanks for tasking the time to put this one out here for everyone to try.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:59:58 +0000

I thought it was spicy in a flavor-way (not burns-your-tongue-spicy), but I bet you could cut the spices, like you said. Hope they like it!

You could also try making it for yourself for lunch and giving them a “taste” to see if you should serve it for dinner sometime.