Chickpea lettuce cups

Summer meal – Chickpea lettuce cups with tahini dressing

Looking for a quick, easy and light summer meal? Then you’ve come to the right place. These lettuce cups filled with flavourful roasted chickpeas and fresh veg all topped with a creamy tahini dressing are sure to be a crowd pleaser and require minimal time and effort to create. It’s as simple as roasting the chickpeas, chopping up the other ingredients, stirring together the dressing then assembling and then you’re good to go. Ideal for gatherings with friends and family and perfect for a picnic on the beach.

Ingredients

For the chickpeas

2 cups cooked chickpeas

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

½ teaspoon garlic powder

¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper

½ teaspoon himalayan salt

For the lettuce cups

Lettuce leaves (romaine or cos work well)

Diced tomato

Diced cucumber

Coriander

For the tahini dressing

¼ cup tahini

¼ cup lemon juice

2 ½ tablespoon maple syrup

Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Preheat oven to 160 degrees.

Add all the ingredients for the chickpeas into a bowl and mix until all the chickpeas are coated, then transfer to a lined baking tray.

Bake the chickpeas for about 15 minutes or until slightly golden.

While they are baking, mix together all the ingredients for the tahini dressing.

Remove the chickpeas from the oven and once they are cooled, add them, along with all the other lettuce cup ingredients into the lettuce leaves then drizzle with the tahini dressing and enjoy!

 

By Ella Farrugia

aka @thecuriousavocado