Jamie Oliver's quick and easy veggie curry

Name: Jamie Oliver quick easy veggie curry
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings

Jamie Oliver shows how to rustle up a quick and easy vegetable curry that mainly uses frozen or pantry ingredients.

A pot with vegetable curry and a spoon sticking out of it with naan bread to the side

By Jamie Oliver | Published - 30 Dec 2025

Cooking Time

40 mins

Serves

Ingredients

Olive oil for frying
250g frozen chopped onion
400g frozen sweet potato chunks
Four tablespoons tikka spice paste
400g tin of chickpeas
400g tin quality plum tomatoes
300g bag of sliced spring greens
Four tablespoons natural yoghurt or non-dairy alternative, to serve
Cooked rice or naan, to serve
Mango chutney, to serve (optional)

Method

Drizzle one tablespoon of olive oil into a large wide shallow pan on a high heat. Add the onion and sweet potato and cook for 5 minutes, then stir in the curry paste and cook for 10 minutes, scraping up any sticky bits from the base of the pan.
Add the chickpeas, juice and all, and mash a few with a fork. Scrunch in the tomatoes and add one tin’s worth of water. Bring to the boil, then turn the heat down and simmer for 15 minutes, until thickened.
Push the curry to one side of the pan. Add the sliced spring greens, then cover and simmer for 5 minutes, until wilted.
Stir half the greens through the curry, then divide the curry and a side of greens between warm plates and serve with rice or warm naans, a dollop of yoghurt and mango chutney, if you like.

Better Baskets

Tesco Good Food Ambassador Jamie Oliver has created a selection of seasonal recipes in collaboration with WWF and Tesco as part of the supermarket's Better Baskets initiative, which aims to make it easier for customers to make healthy and sustainable choices.

“These new recipes are packed with wonderful veg and are super flexible, so home cooks can use what they already have in the fridge or swap in whatever veg is in season," says Jamie Oliver. "They're also affordable, really quick to rustle up, and full of flavour - so will hopefully provide inspiration for the whole family.”

Tesco is also working with its partner WWF to halve the environmental impact of shopping baskets, reducing the impact of food production and tackling food and packaging waste.

Hungry for more? Try Jamie's easy spring soup with cheesy toast.

(Hero image credit: Jamie Oliver & Tesco)

Written by: Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver is a top celebrity chef, restaurant owner and book author. He made his television debut in 1999 and has been cooking and campaigning ever since.

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