Chickpea traybake pittas

This nourishing traybake combines roasted spiced chickpeas with plenty of veg before stuffing into pittas and drizzling in minty yoghurt sauce – an easy, flavour-packed dinner for any day of the week.

Ingreadient

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 lemon, juice only
  • 2 garlic clove, crushed
  • 2 tsp ras-el-hanout
  • 1 small cauliflower, leaves included, broken into small florets
  • 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into thick wedges
  • 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into thick wedges
  • 1 red onion, cut into thick wedges
  • 400g tin chickpeas, drained
  • small bunch parsley, chopped
  • 2 tsp toasted sesame seeds
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • For the yoghurt sauce
  • 200g/7oz low-fat natural yoghurt
  • 1 tbsp mint sauce
  • 4 wholemeal pitta bread
  • 1 Little Gem lettuce, shredded
  • chilli sauce

Direction

  1. Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7.
  2. Whisk the oil, lemon juice, garlic and ras el hanout together in a large bowl. Add the vegetables and chickpeas, season with a pinch of salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.
  3. Tip everything into a large roasting tin and shake out into an even layer. Roast for 45 minutes, giving everything a shake and a mix halfway through cooking.
  4. Meanwhile, mix the yoghurt and mint sauce in a small bowl and season with a pinch of salt.
  5. Remove the vegetables from the oven and stir through the parsley and sesame seeds.
  6. Warm the pitta breads in the oven for a few minutes, then split and stuff with the roast vegetables, chickpeas and shredded lettuce. Serve with both the yoghurt and chilli sauce.
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