Vegan Roasted Pumpkin & Crispy Chickpea Salad with Sage Cashew Cream

This was seriously such a flavourful and tasty salad and I enjoyed it for 3 days straight for lunch… Sage and pumpkin pairs really well and with the extra tastiness of the chickpeas – it’s flavour galore! You will have some leftovers using these exact measurements.

The sage cashew cream honestly reminds me of tzatziki, so if you’re into that flavour I highly recommend this recipe.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups pumpkin cubes
  • 1 can chickpeas
  • 2 cups salad mix
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

For the sage cashew cream

  • 10g fresh sage
  • 1/3 cup soaked cashews (atleast 1 hour)
  • Squeeze of lemon
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/4 cup water

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 200C. Rinse and drain the chickpeas. Coat chickpeas in paprika and salt. Roast the pumpkin and chickpeas for 30-40 minutes or until the pumpkin is soft and the chickpeas are crispy.
  2. Meanwhile, make your sage cashew cream by blending all ingredients until smooth.
  3. Assemble the salad, adding the chickpeas, pumpkin, salad mix and sage cashew cream.

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