Vegan Chickpea Roast
Simple roast with hearty barbecue sauce, served with juicy red cabbage. Vegan Christmas roast – packed with plantbased protein, tasty, tangy, delicious.
The easiest roast
This roast needs only a few ingredients and requires only a few minutes of preparation, then it just needs to be baked in the oven until crispy. The vegan meat substitute consists mainly of chickpeas, which are fried in a pan until crispy and then lightly mashed. Roasted almonds are added for crunch, soy sauce and herbs for seasoning, and rolled oats to bind the mixture.
The roast is also topped with a simple homemade 4-ingredient barbecue sauce at the end and finished in the oven. The sauce wraps around the mixture and provides a slight spiciness & sweetness: an indescribable taste experience.
Why you should try this roast:
- vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free
- delicious roast perfect for the Christmas menu
- quick and easy to prepare
- no special ingredients needed, you probably already have everything at home
- not only for Christmas, but all year round a delicious meal for everyone
- High Protein: packed with healthy plant proteins
- also suitable for meal Prep, so you have a delicious source of protein prepared all week long
- fits perfectly with juicy red cabbage, roast potatoes or mashed potatoes
- the barbecue sauce provides slight spiciness & sweetness and the umami taste
- the red cabbage is hearty & juicy but also slightly sweet because of a grated apple and cranberry jam
Vegan Christmas
Vegan can be delicious, quick & easy to prepare and not expensive! You want to show that to your family? Then, for example, you could suggest that you prepare one or two dishes for the Christmas menu and delight them with it. If the family is very open, you can of course make a completely vegan menu! But it often doesn’t work that easy. So if you only prepare parts of the menu vegan, they can slowly expirience it and then they’re not overwhelmed. And they’ll be impressed!
If you make the recipe, feel free to give me a feedback or write a comment on how it turned out. And if you share your homemade dish with your friends on social media, I would be very grateful when you link me (Instagram @flavour. dreams) and set the hashtag #flavourdreams. Of course I am always available for questions. Enjoy to try the recipe!
Vegan Chickpea Roast
Ingredients
- 100 g almonds chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ onion chopped
- 2 garlic clove minced
- 2 tans (500g) chickpeas separated from the liquid
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 4 tbsp dried herbs
- 50 ml tomato sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
- 120 g tender rolled oats
Barbecuesauce:
- 4 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp rice or maple sirup
- ¼ tsp siracha sauce
- salt and pepper
Red cabbage:
- 1 head red cabbage
- 1 apple
- 600 ml apple juice
- 4 tbsp cranberry jam
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius or 356 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Chop the red cabbage finely and put it in a pot with the apple juice, salt and pepper. Let the cabbage simmer gently for 30-60 minutes. When the liquid evaporates completely, add some water. At the end, add the grated apple and cranberry jam to the steamed red cabbage.
- Toast the chopped almonds in a pan on medium heat for 3 minutes. Be careful, the almonds can burn very quickly. Then add the olive oil, onion, garlic and chickpeas to the pan, season with salt, pepper and herbs and fry for a few minutes until crispy. Deglaze with soy sauce and tomato sauce.
- Remove the pan from the heat and (using a hard object or a sturdy glass) mash the chickpeas. Some chickpeas can still remain whole.
- Place the mixture in a bowl and mix it with the rolled oats. The oats bind the chickpea mass. Grease a box form with a little olive oil, put the mixture in and press it into the box form. Bake the roast in the oven for 30 minutes.
- In the meantime, mix all the ingredients for the barbecue sauce.
- Take the box form out of the oven, let it cool for 5 minutes and turn the mould gently and slowly with heat-resistant gloves so that the roast comes out nicely. Top the roast with the sauce and bake in the oven for another 15 minutes.
- Serve the roast with red cabbage and, if desired, with a vegan glaze, tomato sauce, mashed potatoes or fried potatoes.
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