Heh clever title....
Ok this time I had a lot more fun making these dishes as last round I tried a bit more than I would usually do. This time I made some simple dishes, with plenty of flavour. Didn't take as many pictures because I was lazy sorry!
Ingredients were: Chickpeas, chorizo, peppers, curry powder, chilli powder, flour, eggs, mango chutney, tomatoes, garlic, onions, olive oil, cocoa, muscovado sugar, orange juice, yoghurt, bicarb soda and seasoning. Came to about.....£7.50 with a lot of extra stuff to cook with later.
The starter was a
Chickpea, Pepper and Chorizo Salad.It's the simplest and probably my favourite of the all the dishes I made, really delicious and full of colour.
All it really was fry the chorizo off until it's fat starts to leak from it, then toss the chickpeas in and they become a really lovely red colour. Near the end put the already cooked peppers in and stir. To serve add a bit of yoghurt(Can't be seen in the photo due to colour of the plate aha) as it'll cut the fattyness of the chorizo really well.
The main was a
Chickpea and pepper curry served with a chickpea flat breadIt's basically a simple recipe, Base of onions and garlic until softened then add curry powder spices and chilli powder, add chopped tomatoes with some water and boil for a while. Once done that add chickpeas, then peppers and near the end add a bit of mango chutney to balance the hotness of the chilli.
What I'm surprised about is I actually bothered to make a flat bread with it too! It's a basic bread recipe but instead of it all being flour it was 50/50 flour to chickpeas which some were left whole to add texture. It's mixed then kneaded to create the dough. The other major difference of it compared to a normal bread is the lack of yeast, hence the name flatbread. It was all pretty delicious! Served with a bit of extra mango chutney.
Finally for dessert was a
Chickpea Chocolate CakeThe great thing about this as It contains no flour, it can be eaten by someone who has a wheat allergy. It's also incredibly moist compared to a cake with flour in it.
It's a batter made from blended chickpeas with a little juice so the blender doesn't get stuck then eggs blened with. After, muscovado sugar, cocoa, bicarb soda is added to create the batter, then poured into a dish to bake. It comes out quite a bit risen, but soon drops to a normal height. The cake is very heavy, but surprisingly light to eat!
This was a lot of fun to do and I
really advise people to try to make the warm salad, because I found it to be really simple, but really damn tasty! Also thanks GW for for getting me off my ass to try to cook something that requires more effort than pasta or a sandwich aha.