Vegetable Tray Bake With Chickpeas & Tahini Sauce
Vegetable Tray Bake With Chickpeas And Tahini Sauce.
A Spiced Vegan Tray Bake With Sweet Potato, Red Onion And Whole Garlic.
Easy, Vegan, And Made With Whatever Veggies You Have.
Introduction to vegetable tray bake
This vegetable tray bake is sweet potato or other vegetables, chickpeas, red onions, tomatoes and whole garlic cloves, roasted with olive oil, cumin and smoky paprika, then drizzled with an easy tahini sauce. It’s vegan and gluten free. You can make it with whatever veggies you have handy.
You might know this one as my sweet potato chickpea bake. Sweet potato is scrumptious in it, but it works with lots of other vegetables too. It’s about as simple as a recipe gets.
The chickpeas make it filling, and they add plant protein. The tahini sauce takes a minute and brings it all together.
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Vegetable tray bake, ready to eat
Sweet potato is scrumptious if you have it, but lots of other vegetables work too. See the tahini sauce drizzled on top.
Ingredients for vegetable tray bake
Here are the ingredients for this Flametree Yoga Studio dish.
The tray bake
- Vegetables such as sweet potato, pumpkin, carrots, potato, zucchini or red capsicum, or whatever you prefer or have handy
- Cooked chickpeas
- 2 red onions
- 2 to 3 tomatoes, cut in half
- Whole cloves of garlic, unskinned
- Olive oil
- About a quarter of a teaspoon of cumin, and smoky paprika
The tahini sauce
- 3 dessert spoons of tahini
- Salt, to taste
- Some water, for the consistency of the sauce
- About half a lime or lemon, squeezed
How to make vegetable tray bake
Use these steps to make this spiced veggie and chickpea tray bake.
Step 1: Make the tahini sauce
- Put the tahini, salt, lime or lemon juice and some water into a blender or bowl.
- Mix it together until you can drizzle it over the vegetables and chickpeas, like on the plate above.
Step 2: Fill the tray
- Cut the vegetables into pieces.
- Spread them in a baking tray with the chickpeas, the red onions, the halved tomatoes and the whole garlic cloves, still in their skins.
Step 3: Add the oil and spices
- Drizzle everything with olive oil.
- Sprinkle over the cumin and smoky paprika.
Step 4: Roast, then serve
- Bake in the oven until the vegetables are soft.
- Serve with the tahini sauce drizzled on top.
Straight out of the oven
The whole tray, straight out of the oven. Use sweet potato or any mix you like. You can see the red onion, and the whole garlic cloves still in their jackets.
Is this vegetable tray bake vegan and gluten free?
Yes. It’s vegetables, chickpeas, olive oil, spices and a sauce of tahini, lemon or lime, salt and water. There are no animal products and no wheat.
If you cook for someone with coeliac disease, check your spice and tahini labels.
What is tahini sauce made of?
Tahini is a paste made from ground sesame seeds. My tahini sauce is just 3 dessert spoons of tahini, the juice of about half a lime or lemon, salt to taste, and enough water to make it runny.
It’s lovely on any roasted vegetables, not just this chickpea tray bake.
Why roast the garlic cloves in their skins?
The skin protects each clove in the oven, so it goes soft and sweet instead of burning. Squeeze the soft garlic out of its jacket as you eat.
Vegetable tray bake: quick questions answered
What vegetables can I use in this tray bake?
Sweet potato, pumpkin, carrots, potato, zucchini and red capsicum all work, or whatever you prefer or have handy.
Do I have to use sweet potato?
No. Sweet potato is scrumptious if you have it, but lots of other vegetables work just as well, on their own or together.
How do I get the tahini sauce the right thickness?
Add water a little at a time and mix, until the sauce is thin enough to drizzle over the vegetables and chickpeas.
How is this different from your vegan rice bake?
My vegan rice bake cooks rice, chickpeas and vegetables together in coconut milk in one dish. This tray bake roasts the vegetables and chickpeas in olive oil and spices, then finishes them with tahini sauce.
More Flametree chickpea recipes
Love chickpeas and sweet potato? Try my vegan rice bake with chickpeas and sweet potato, my sweet potato patties, or my vegan chickpea and lentil curry.
Do you have a vegan recipe or dish you’d like to share?
Please contact me with any dishes you’d like to share with me.
Obviously, I’m especially interested in any dish that is already a great Darwin vegan option.
Alternatively, it may be a potential vegan Darwin recipe that I could adapt, or be inspired by, as I did here.
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Recipe by Chris Lalor, Flametree Yoga Studio, Darwin NT. General information only.
