Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Spellbound : Pumpkin, Spinach & Chickpea Casserole



200g chickpeas cooked or organic canned for lazy days
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium red onions, chopped
600 g pumpkin, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
a nice mix of paprika, black pepper, dried parsley, salt and turmeric
250ml vegetable stock
100 g baby spinach
50g grated cheddar cheese
50g grated Parmesan cheese
200g long grain rice
lemon wedges to serve

Preheat oven gas mark 5.
Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion vegetable stock and pumpkin.
Cook, stirring, for 10minutes or until soft. Add the garlic, chickpeas and spice mix and cook for another 10 min then finally add the spinach and cook till it disappears. Remove from heat, add the cheddar cheese and stir well. At the same time cook the rice in a separate pot for as long as the package indicates.
Mix pumpkin and friends with the rice and place in a pyrex type roasting tray that has been coated with olive oil. Put grated Parmesan on top.
Place in oven. Roast for 30 minutes or so. Serve with lemon wedges.


This recipe was made while listening to :
Birthday Party - Release the Bats
The Shags - It's Halloween
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
Boris- Spoon
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Explosions In The Sky - Welcome, Ghosts
Gang Gang Dance - Nomad For Love (Cannibal)
Guards- Don't Wake The Dead
Male Bonding - Bones
Os Mutantes - Ave, Lucifer
Radio Birdman - Murder City Nights
Abe Vigoda - Dead City

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