Roasted seasonal vegetables with chickpeas and spinach
Here's a healthy vegetarian recipe for a cold winters day. Eat it hot or have it for lunch the next day.
Ingredients
- - 1 kumara, peeled
- - 1/4 pumpkin, peeled
- - 2 carrots, peeled
- - 1 red onion, roughly chopped
- - 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- - 3 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
- - 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
- - 1 tablespoon oil
- - black pepper to taste
- - 1 can chopped tomatoes, or 2 fresh tomatoes
- - 1 cup spinach leaves
Method
- 1. Preheat the oven to 225°C.
- 2. Cut the kumara, pumpkin and carrots into chunks.
- 3. Place in a shallow roasting dish with the drained chickpeas.
- 4. Add the onion, garlic, cumin seeds and oil, mix well.
- 5. Season with pepper and bake for 25 minutes.
- 6. Add the tomatoes and bake for a further 15 minutes.
- 7. Remove from the oven and add the spinach leaves.
- 8. Serve hot or cold.