These spiced chickpea tacos with with roasted vegetables make a healthy nutritious meal for lunch or dinner. Serve without the yogurt and they're vegan too!
Until recently I always thought of tacos as being the crunchy Tex Mex type. I like them but they can be messy and difficult to eat. The hard shell always seems to crack in the wrong places leaving you with the filling sliding down your fingers. Not the type of meal to eat if you're precious about getting messy!
However, tacos don't have to be crunchy. Soft tacos are simply wheat or corn tortillas wrapped around a filling. So much easier to eat! And over the last few years, eating food in wraps has grown in popularity in the UK.
So, when this month's Recipe Redux theme of Taco Tuesday was announced, I decided straightaway that I would go for soft tacos. I decided to avoid traditional Mexican flavours but to go for a more Indian inspired chickpea taco.
These Indian inspired tacos are so easy to make!
The spiced roasted chickpeas are really simple to make but so moreish! Just mix together some spices and some oil then toss the chickpeas in the spicy oil. I then roasted them in the oven along with aubergines, butternut squash and red peppers. Tacos need sauce too so I chopped some fresh coriander leaf and stirred it into natural yoghurt.
The roasted chickpeas are good enough to snack on just by themselves but are also delicious with the sweet roasted vegetables. It makes a tasty vegetarian meal but could also be vegan if you used vegan yoghurt. Alternatively you could replace the yoghurt with houmous, baba ganoush or this carrot dip for a yummy vegan choice.
My children love filling their own chickpea tacos!
If you have children it can be fun to prepare tacos like this at home. Just put everything down on the table and everyone can make their own taco with their favourite fillings. The only problem is when one child wants all the chickpeas for themselves!
If you like these chickpea tacos and want more recipes using roasted chickpeas then do take a look at this roasted chickpea salad. It also makes a simple healthy lunch.
Recipe
Spiced Roasted Chickpea Tacos
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- ½ teaspoon chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 400 g tin of chickpeas drained and rinsed
- ⅓ butternut squash cut into thick slices
- 2 red peppers cut into slices
- 1 large aubergine cut into large pieces
- 8 small tortillas
- 300 g natural yoghurt
- 3 tablespoon coriander leaf cilantro, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Mix the spices together with the oil in a bowl. Add the chickpeas and stir so they are coated in the spicy oil.
- Transfer the chickpeas to a baking tray and roast in the oven for 20 minutes at 200C.
- Put the vegetables on another baking tray and drizzle the leftover spicy oil over the top. Add a little extra oil if necessary and toss the vegetables in it. Put the vegetables in the oven too for 20-30 minutes.
- Mix most of the fresh coriander into the yoghurt. Reserve a little if you want it as a garnish.
Notes
Nutrition
Roy
I've been looking for easy recipes to add more plant based protein to my diet. This is a great one, I am definitely going to try this meal in the next week or two.
Corina
I do hope you like it! Let me know.
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins
Oooh Corina this meal looks so good! I love chickpeas and this would definitely be a meal we would all love, going on the must try list! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Corina
Thanks Kirsty! I hope you enjoy it x
Sonali- The Foodie Physician
I adore the idea of Indian inspired tacos! They look so yummy! And yes, roasted chickpeas do make a great snack!
Corina
Thanks Sonali! I'm so pleased you like them and yes, it's great that you can just eat the chickpeas as snack!
Eb Gargano / easypeasyfoodie.com
This is such a lovely recipe - so my kind of thing. I love fusion cooking and I love tacos! Totally agree that doing tacos with kids is lots of fun. Mine really enjoy it! Eb x
Corina
Thanks Eb! It was fun doing them together but I wished I'd made loads of extra veggies as certain things were more poular than others so when we were eating them I ended up with a rather unbalanced taco!
Jenny Dunklee
What a cool idea with the chickpeas; saving this for my next taco night!
Corina
I hope you enjoy it!
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain
They look so good, and I know just what you mean about some tacos being a tad messy to eat! Yummy non the less. Love the colours you've got here Corina
Angela x
Corina
Thanks Angela!
Aish Das-Padihari
I cook with chickpeas a lot but never made tacos out of it. I think its a grand idea.
Corina
Oh I'm so pleased you like the idea! They went really well in the tacos with the roasted vegetables and yoghurt.
Elaine @ foodbod
Yum yum yum!!!
Corina
Thanks Elaine!
Sarah James @ Tales From The Kitchen Shed
Your Chickpea tacos look delicious Corina and so colourful too. I love the Indian flavours, they make a tasty change.
Corina
Thank you Sarah! I can never resist anything with Indian flavours.
Jacqui Bellefontaine
I want to make these now they look amazing!
Corina
Thanks so much Jacqui!
Mandy
I love this recipe Corina - this is my dream lunch! #CookBlogShare
Corina
Aww thanks Mandy!
Marie-Pierre Breton
Found what I'm going to eat tonight! Love the flavours in there, spot on!
Corina
I hope you enjoyed it!
Julia
Sweet and spicy sounds perfect to me. Maybe it's time I finally jumped on the roasted chickpeas train? Thanks for the inspiration. Happy Taco Tuesday!
Corina
I'm sure you've love it! Roasted chickpeas are amazing too - definitely worth making either for this or just as a snack!