Chickpea Bake
Description
A hearty and warm dish. This dish takes fairly long to make and is not suitable for a ‘come home from work and cook a quick meal’ kind of dish. It takes time and has a few different elements to it. I would recommend cooking this if you have the afternoon free. It will be great for entertaining guests in an affordable, healthy way :)
Best served alongside some green veggies.
3-4 Servings
50 Minutes
5 Favourites
Ingredients
- 1 small sweet potato (cubed)
- 1/4 green pepper (cut into chunks)
- 1/4 red pepper (cut into chunks)
- 2 whole tomatoes (cubed)
- 1 fresh chili
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1 small tin of tomato paste
- few splashes of red wine
- 1 tin chickpeas
- 1 cup fresh mushrooms (sliced)
- 1 small aubergine (thinly sliced)
Method
- 1In a small pot, boil your sweet potatoes until soft then drain and set aside when complete.
- 2In a pan, over low heat, cook together the following: your peppers, tomatoes, chilli, garlic, rosemary, tomato paste & red wine. Season with salt & pepper. **don’t worry about chopping your chilli/garlic as you will be blending this mixture.
- 3Allow the above mixture to simmer until all the veggies are nice and soft.
- 4Once the tomato mixture and your potatoes are ready - add them together into a blender and blend until you get a nice thick, orangey tomato-based soup.**If you give it a taste, it should taste like a delicious sweet potato tomato soup that’s ready to go. Set this aside for now.
- 5In the same pan you used for the mixture, fry up your chickpeas and mushrooms together with some paprika to season. Fry until they are slightly browning.
- 66. In an oven dish, pour your sweet potato and tomato mixture in, followed by your chickpeas & mushrooms. Mix together thoroughly.
- 7To finish, placed your sliced aubergine on top of your chickpea mixture. Season with some basil if you have. If not, some black pepper will do just fine :)
- 8Bake in the oven for +- 30 minutes at 180degrees. Your aubergine should be nice and brown and crispy. Viola!
