Roast Vegetable & Chickpea Tray Bake
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Prep: 30 mins
Cook: 1 hrs
Pots away, grab that baking tray: tonight you’ll roast a riot of veg with crispy spiced chickpeas, fresh mint and a garlic and lemon dressing for a veritable veggie feast.
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414 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 400g beetroot
  • 750g potatoes
  • 600g carrots
  • 2 red onions
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 2 x 400g tins of chickpeas
  • 1 tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp caraway seeds
  • 2 tsp fennel seeds
  • A large handful of mint, leaves only
  • 1 lemon
  • 100g baby leaf spinach
From your kitchen
  • 6 tbsp olive oil
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • 1 tbsp cold water
You'll need
  • 1-2 baking trays
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Preheat your oven to 200°C/Fan 180°C/Gas 6. Trim and scrub the beetroot and chop them into bitesized chunks. Scrub the potatoes and chop them to match. Trim the carrots. Keep any thinner ones whole, and cut the thicker ones in half lengthways. Peel the red onions and quarter them.

  • 2.

    Tumble the veg onto a large baking tray, making sure the veg are spread out in a single layer. Use another baking tray if you need to. Drizzle over 3 tbsp olive oil and add a good pinch of salt and pepper. Toss to coat the veg. Wrap the garlic cloves in a parcel of foil and pop that on to the tray, then slide the tray into the oven for 45 mins.

  • 3.

    While the veg roast, drain and rinse the chickpeas. Pop them in a bowl and drizzle over 1 tbsp olive oil. Add 1 tsp each ground coriander and caraway seeds, and 2 tsp fennel seeds with a good pinch of salt and pepper. Toss to coat the chickpeas.

  • 4.

    Finely chop the mint leaves and place in a small bowl. Zest and juice in the lemon. Pour in 2 tbsp olive oil and 1 tbsp cold water. Add a good pinch of salt and pepper and set aside.

  • 5.

    After 45 mins, remove the baking tray from the oven. Lift out the foil parcel of garlic and set aside. Tip the chickpeas onto the tray. Toss together. Slide back into the oven for 15 mins.

  • 6.

    Let the garlic bulb cool for 5 or 10 mins, then carefully pull the cloves apart. Squeeze the garlic flesh from its papery skin, into the bowl with the lemon and mint dressing. Whisk together.

  • 7.

    Divide the baby leaf spinach between 6 plates. Remove the veg from the oven and spoon it over the spinach leaves. Drizzle the garlicky mint dressing over the top of each dish to serve.

  • Tip

    Eat & Keep
    The roast veg will keep for up to 3 days in the fridge. Divide them into tub, cool and then seal and store. The dressing will keep in a clean jar for 3 days too, so you can shake it up and drizzle it over the roast veg when you reheat them.

  • Tip

    Extra, Extra
    This tray bake makes a warming winter meal by itself, or you can add some sides ot make it go even further. A dish of nutty brown basmati rice or fluffy bulgar wheat is great served on the side, as is a juicy tomato salad tossed with sliced red onion, balsamic vinegar and a pinch of sugar.

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