Vegan buddha bowl with cumin-roasted chickpeas

• Produce

  • 1/2 Avocado
  • 50 g Baby spinach
  • 1 Baby zucchini / courgette
  • 1 Beetroot, medium
  • 2 cups Chickpeas, Cooked
  • 1/2 tsp Chilli, hot powder
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 1/2 Quick-pickled red onion, small

• Condiments

  • 6 Kalamata olives, pitted and halved
  • 1 1/2 tbsp Lemon juice

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 tsp Paprika, smoked
  • 1 Pepper
  • 2 Salt

• Oils & Vinegars

  • 2 tbsp Olive oil
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil, Extra Virgin

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 2 tsp Cumin, ground
  • 1 tbsp Pumpkin seeds / pepitas

• Other

  • 1 tsp Sambal oelek (indonesian chilli paste

Found on lazycatkitchen.com

Description

Directions

• Place chickpeas in a colander for a few minutes to drain them well. You may want to save the canning or cooking liquid (if you cooked them yourself) for another use like vegan meringues, for example. If you cooked the chickpeas yourself, let them cool down completely before pan roasting them. Mix all the spices together with a few pinches of salt in a small bowl.Heat up a heavy bottomed pan on a medium-high heat. Pour 2 tablespoons of olive oil on the hot pan and wait a few seconds for the oil to heat up. Chuck drained chickpeas into the hot oil and place an unpeeled garlic clove in the pan. Stir the chickpeas from time to time so that they don’t burn. Let the garlic brown on both sides, then take it off the pan and set aside. Sprinkle chickpeas with spices and salt and stir the spices in. Keep on roasting the chickpeas until they are evenly coated in spices and the spices become fragrant. Taste the chickpeas and adjust with salt if necessary. Stir frequently as ground spices burn really easily and become bitter. Take off the heat and set aside.Prepare the dressing by mixing olive oil, lemon juice and sambal oelek. Peel the garlic clove you roasted earlier, grate it finely and add it to the dressing. Season the dressing by adding salt and pepper to taste.Divide all the bowl ingredients and roasted chickpeas between two bowls. Drizzle with the dressing.