Roasted vegetable chickpea pâté

Who else is madly in love with roasted veg?

I’ve said it before and I’ll almost certainly say it again – roasting is the less supernatural (and slightly more time-consuming) version of waving a magic wand over vegetables. It can literally transform something from a hard, bland lump to a sweet, sticky, crispy nugget of deliciousness.

(and apparently this is a more poetic version of a normal Amuse Your Bouche post…)

However, as much as I love roasted veg, I don’t want to eat them day after day – being a food blogger, I’m used to rarely repeating the same meal twice! So whenever I have leftover vegetables, I try to repurpose them in some way. For me, leftover roasted veg will now forever lead to roasted vegetable chickpea pâté!

I’ve made a similar vegan pâté before (walnut and roasted garlic chickpea pâté) – chickpeas and walnuts give such a great pâté-like base, and you can then add whatever flavourings you like. Last time I went for roasted garlic, this time I just crammed in as many roasted vegetables as I could fit into my food processor. The result was completely amazing – you get all the flavours of the roasted veg (slightly sweet, slightly earthy), in a perfectly spreadable format.

I served my roasted vegetable pâté with some pitta bread for dipping, but you could also go for veggie sticks (if you want a veg overload), or you could even go super fancy and serve it with toast triangles (crusts removed, of course). This vegan chickpea pâté would be a great quick appetiser to whip up when you have friends over, to serve with some wine!

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Roasted vegetable chickpea pâté

Prep Time: 5 mins

Total Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 40 g walnuts
• 100 g cooked chickpeas I used tinned
• 300 g leftover roasted vegetables I used a mixture of carrots, red and yellow peppers, mushrooms, onions and sweet potato
• 1 tbsp basil pesto
• ~3tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

• Add the walnuts and chickpeas to a food processor, and blitz until a coarse paste has been formed. Add the vegetables and pesto, and blitz again until smooth.
• Adjust the thickness of the pâté with as much extra virgin olive oil as you need.

Course: Snack

Author: Becca Heyes

Here’s another easy vegan dip recipe – quick black bean dip!