Potato and Smoky Chickpea Bowls with Tempeh Bacon - gluten-free, vegan, warm, and a little addictive
This easy recipe mostly involves leaving food in the oven sitting on cookie sheets, which makes it a very easy recipe. It has roasted potatoes, smoky chickpeas, homemade tempeh bacon and some veggies -- making it a lovely warm meal on a cold day. It is a little addictive.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time40 minutesmins
Total Time50 minutesmins
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American
Author: Valerie Mates
Ingredients
2 15-ouncecans of chickpeasor 3 cups of cooked chickpeas
4-6tablespoonscanola oil
2teaspoonssmoked paprika
salt
3-4Yukon Gold potatoescut into half-inch cubes
1red or orange or yellow bell peppercut into pieces
2cupsgreensfresh or defrosted
optional: 1 small jar artichoke hearts
optional: 1 avocado
Tempeh Bacon
1 8-ouncepackage tempehI like SoyBoy brand, because it seems more reliably gluten-free than some of the other brands
3tablespoonssoy sauce or tamarichoose a gluten-free brand, if wanted
1/3cupapple cider vinegar
1tablespoonof any tomato productsalsa, tomato paste, spaghetti sauce, etc.
1-2teaspoonssmoked paprika
1/2teaspoongarlic powderdon't use fresh garlic for this - it burns in the oven!
2tablespoonscanola oil
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 to 425 degrees.
Chop the potatoes into half-inch cubes. Put them on a nonstick cookie sheet. Add 1-2 teaspoons of salt and 2-4 tablespoons canola oil. Toss everything together with a pair of spatulas. Put the cookie sheet into the oven. Bake for 20 minutes, taking it out occasionally to use the spatulas to gently turn and mix the potatoes.
Meanwhile, on another nonstick cookie sheet, place all of the tempeh bacon ingredients *except* for the tempeh. Stir everything together into a marinade, and spread it out across the entire cookie sheet.
Slice the block of tempeh into slices about 1/8 inch thick, which should make 40-50 slices from a single block of tempeh. Place each strip on the cookie sheet and then either tilt the cookie sheet or flip over the strips or spoon the marinade so that both sides of each piece have marinade on them.
Put the cookie sheet with the tempeh on the other shelf in the oven.
Meanwhile, rinse the garbanzo beans in a strainer under running water. In a bowl, mix them with 2-3 tablespoons of canola oil, some salt, and 2 teaspoons of smoked paprika.
When the potatoes are most-of-the-way cooked and starting to turn brown, add the garbanzo beans to their cookie sheet and toss everything together with the two spatulas, then return the cookie sheet to the oven for another 10-15 minutes.
When the potatoes are golden and beautiful, remove that cookie sheet from the oven.
When the tempeh is golden brown and beautiful, remove *that* cookie sheet from the oven.
Meanwhile, cut up the bell pepper and avocado into small pieces, and cut up the artichoke hearts into half-inch pieces, if you are using them.
When everything is ready, mix everything EXCEPT THE AVOCADO together in a big mixing bowl. (Keep the avocado on the side so that if you have leftovers you can reheat them without having to heat up the avocado.)
Serve the mixture topped with avocado, if you are using it.