Today’s recipe (another wonderful discovery !) is called “Spicy Chickpea and Vegetable Stew”.
:(
I do wish there were some place somewhere to which recipe inventers could turn to find inspiration for Better Names For Recipes !
Still, it’s correctly descriptive: it just doesn’t give the faintest indication of how yummy and good for you the recipe is ..
SPICY CHICKPEAS WITH AND VEGETABLES CASSEROLE
Time: 30 mins – 1 hour Serves: 4 gourmands/6 gourmets
Ingredients
- 2 tbsps olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 3 tsps ground cumin
- 1 tsp chilli powder
- ½ tsp allspice
- 2 cans chickpeas, drained and lightly rinsed
- 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 375ml vegetable stock
- 300g butternut pumpkin, peeled and diced small
- 150g green beans, topped/tailed and trimmed into thumb-length bits
- 200g zucchini, {ditto} into halves then thick slices
(basically, think of the logic re cooking times of these vegies)
- little can tomato paste
- 1 tsp dried oregano
Method
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion and garlic and sauté for 3 minutes, or until softened.
- Add the cumin, chilli powder and allspice and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
- Add the chickpeas, tomato and stock. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover and simmer for around 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in the pumpkin, beans, zucchini, tomato paste and oregano. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes
- Remove the lid and simmer, uncovered, for a further 15 minutes to reduce and thicken the sauce slightly. Serve hot.
Cooking times can be varied to suit taste: do you like your pumpkin squashy ? – or maybe you prefer your zucchini firmer ? Just try it out as you go along, basically.
Sames goes for the amount of chilli powder. The recipe I found calls for a half tsp: but that’s pretty pathetic in my eyes. [grin]
I’m incapable of believing that I could ever derive as much joy from coming across non-vego recipes as I do from these DELICIOUS vegetarian ones.
Btw: I invite anyone interested to suggest a more attractive/appealing names for this terrific bringing-together of pulse and vegetables (not overlooking a wee bit of heat) ..
And for those like the beautiful Debra up there in California, it’s 3 points if you divide it into six serves. Points only in the olive oil and the tomato paste.