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Roast autumn greens can put a spring in your step.
Roasted autumn greens & spiced chickpeas with feta sauce
This may be served as a aspect to a important meal, or made into a light-weight meal by serving with couscous or quinoa.
Once more, the greens may be combined up utilizing what you have got available – different choices embody pumpkin, beetroot, cauliflower and/or broccoli.
Serves 4 as a aspect or gentle meal
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Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook dinner time: half-hour
Components
1 purple onion
1 purple pepper
1-2 zucchini
2-3 carrots
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper to season
400g can chickpeas, nicely drained
1 tsp floor cumin
1 tsp floor coriander
½ tsp smoked paprika
Feta Sauce
100g feta, crumbled
½ cup (125ml) unsweetened pure yoghurt
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp lemon zest
1 garlic clove, finely grated
Beneficiant grind of cracked pepper
Methodology
Preheat the oven to 200 levels Celsius (fan 180C).
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Lower the produce into comparable sized wedges and lengths. Place on a big roasting tray, drizzle over 1 tbsp olive oil, season with salt and pepper and toss to mix. Roast for Quarter-hour.
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In the meantime, in a bowl mix the chickpeas, remaining 1 tbsp olive oil, spices and one other pinch of salt and toss to mix.
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After the greens have been roasting for Quarter-hour, flip with a steel spatula and scatter over the chickpeas. Return to the oven for 10-Quarter-hour till the greens are golden-edged and tender. Scoop onto a serving plate – with a mattress of cooked quinoa or couscous if utilizing.
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Mix the feta sauce elements in a bowl, utilizing a fork to mash and blend nicely till mixed. Add further lemon juice or cracked pepper to style.
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Serve the roast greens and chickpeas heat with the feta sauce on the aspect.
Nicola Galloway is an award-winning meals author, cookbook writer and culinary tutor. www.homegrown-kitchen.co.nz
DID YOU KNOW? Chickpeas have been one of many first legumes to be cultivated, round 11,000 years in the past in what’s now modern-day Turkey and Syria. Domesticated chickpeas have been discovered at a number of early archaeological websites, together with in Jericho (8350 BC to 7370 BC). At this time, India is the world’s largest producer of chickpeas.