Spiced Peanut & Harissa Falafel With Salad
To create these nourishing, plant-based falafel, you'll use peanut butter to bind the mixture for a fabulously satisfying taste and texture, while harissa will add a tempting warmth. Roast them alongside cubed sweet potato and serve with a spinach & cherry tomato salad! (Dairy-free: see our FAQs for details).
Ingredients for 2 people
You'll also need
Olive oil, Pepper, Salt, Vegetable oil (or dietary alternatives)
Cooking instructions
Instructions for 2 portion recipe.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/ 180°C (fan)/ 400°F/ Gas 6
Drain the chickpeas
Add the drained chickpeas, panko breadcrumbs, harissa paste, peanut butter, ground cumin and a very generous pinch of salt to a food processor and blitz until smooth
Tip: if you don't have a processor, mash everything with a potato masher until smooth
Divide the chickpea mixture into 10 [20] portions and shape them into falafel balls
Add the falafel balls to one side of an oiled baking tray
Chop the sweet potatoes (skins on) into small bite-sized cubes
Add the sweet potato cubes to the falafel baking tray
Drizzle the falafel and sweet potato cubes with vegetable oil and season with a pinch of salt
Put the tray in the oven for 20-25 min or until the sweet potatoes and falafel are soft and starting to brown
Tip: gently turn the falafel and potato halfway through so they cook evenly
Meanwhile, slice the lemon[s] into wedges
Peel and grate the garlic
Combine the soy sauce, grated garlic (Don't like raw garlic? Go easy!), the juice of 1/2 [1] lemon, agave nectar, a drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper – this is your lemon dressing
Trim and slice the spring onion[s] finely
Halve the cherry tomatoes
Wash, then pat the baby leaf spinach dry
Once the falafel and sweet potato cubes are ready, drizzle the spinach with the lemon dressing and give everything a really good mix up
Tip: use clean hands to toss the salad to make sure every leaf is coated!
Divide the dressed spinach between bowls and top with the cherry tomato halves, sweet potato and falafel
Garnish with the sliced spring onion, pumpkin seeds and a lemon wedge
Enjoy!
Nutritional information
Nutritional information only applies to ingredients supplied by Gousto.
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The cooking process and additional ingredients added at home (listed under “You'll also need”) will affect total values.
Allergens
Allergens highlighted by † (gluten, peanut, soya).
In addition to the recipe specific allergen information provided, due to production and packing methods Gousto boxes may also contain low levels of the following allergens: Cereals containing gluten; Crustaceans; Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soya; Milk; Nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts; Celery; Sesame; Sulphur dioxide and Sulphites; Lupin; Molluscs; Mustard.
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