roasted chickpea salad

Last night I got home after staying (and eating) 3 days at a hotel. And however I slept well on those nights, I didn't have much of a choice for food. So, I was looking forward to make my lunch today, that I would like to share with you. I made a very easy chickpea salad, with all those spices I love.

Ingredients for the roasted chickpeas:

• a box of ready chickpeas
• 4 small clove garlic
• sesame seeds
• a handful of raw cashew nuts
• Roman cumin
• tahini
• olive oil
• smoked paprika spice
• cayenne pepper
• chili powder
• cinnamon

Elaboration:

I put the cashews, sesame seeds, cumin seeds and garlic in my new Bosch food processor and processed the mixture to a coarse flour. I drained the chickpeas and put them in a cooking tray. Added the coarse seed/nut/spice flour, plus the rest of the ingredients, and mixed everything carefully. Baked it for about 20-30 min on 200 degrees. On a plate I made the salad using salad leaves, avokado, tomato, the roasted chickpeas, jalapeno paprika slices, oatly creme fraiche, salsa sauce, more olive oil, salt, fresh koriander and aceto balsamico, because I learnt that balsamic vinegar suits any dishes.. :-) Mmm.. 

a pumpkin pie

It's autumn, time for pumpkin! The dish is not vegan though, as it contains egg...

Ingredients:
Crust

• 8 tbs of almond flour
• 8 tbs of coconut flour
• 1 tbs of psylium seeds, soaked in about 3 tbs of water
• 1 egg
• himalayan salt
• pinch of baking soda

Filling

• pumpkin, diced
• red paprika, diced
• onions, finely diced
• a bunch of parsley
• tomatoes, chopped
• 300 ml of oatly fraiche (1.5 box)
• 2 eggs
• coconut oil
• spices: freshly ground pepper, nutmeg, himalayan salt, probably chilly flakes

Elaboration:

First slowly fry the onions on coconut oil, then add paprika too. Later on, when those got softened add the pumpkin, tomatoes, parsley and spices.

In the meantime prepare the crust by mixing everything together. Spread some oil in the baking dish, I also added sesame seeds, so the crust is  not sticking to the dish. Evenly spread the crust mixture, with a spoon or by hand and add the ready veggies.

Mix the oatly fraiche, the two eggs, salt, pepper and a little nutmeg and pour it over the pie. Bake it on 200 °C until the pie becomes golden on top. It's delicious <3