Joe Woodhouse’s Recipes For Orecchiette With Chickpeas, And Polenta Chips With Saucy Chickpeas

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I emotion pasta sauces that travel together while nan pasta is cooking. This 1 is beautiful and wholesome, awesome for erstwhile nan upwind starts to lukewarm up a little, and 1 of those that you tin make beautiful overmuch year-round. The polenta chips, meanwhile, came astir erstwhile I wanted to bulk up a sheet of beans without nan messiness (and nan cookware of basking oil) that comes pinch making chips. The polenta tin beryllium made and group ahead, either during nan time aliases nan nighttime before, aliases it will beryllium happily successful nan fridge for a mates of days.

Orecchiette pinch chickpeas (pictured above)

Sub successful different greenish veg, specified arsenic shredded cavolo nero aliases moreover sliced courgettes. You tin besides effort adding 100g kalamata olives, pitted and torn into quarters, astatine nan extremity of nan cooking, to adhd different dimension.

Prep 5 min
Cook 15 min
Serves 4

1 reddish onion, peeled and finely chopped
3 tbsp red-wine vinegar
Salt
350g orecchiette
4 tbsp extra-virgin oliva oil
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
5 ail cloves, peeled and sliced
700g jar chickpeas, aliases 2 × 400g tins, aliases 250g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight, cooked and drained, reserving a small of nan cooking liquor
200g baby spinach, aliases spinach pinch nan reliable stalks removed

To serve
Chilli flakes
Grated difficult cheese, specified arsenic Spenwood (optional)
1 lemon, trim into wedges (optional)

Mix nan reddish bulb and vinegar pinch a pinch of salt, past group aside. Get nan pasta connected to navigator successful a saucepan of well-salted boiling water.

Meanwhile, group a large, high-sided frying cookware connected a mean heat, adhd nan lipid and onion, and cook, stirring often, for 7 to 10 minutes, until it turns translucent. Add nan ail to nan pan, navigator for a minute, until fragrant but not taking connected excessively overmuch colour, past adhd nan chickpeas and their jar aliases tin juices (if you person cooked your own, adhd a small of their banal instead) and lukewarm done gently.

Once nan pasta is al dente, drain, reserving immoderate of nan cooking water, and adhd nan pasta to nan chickpea pan. Stir successful nan spinach to wilt, past loosen nan condiment pinch a scatter of nan pasta cooking water, if needed – a small brothiness is invited here.

Serve successful warmed bowls, topped pinch nan chilli flakes, lightly pickled reddish bulb and grated cheese, pinch citrus wedges alongside, if you like.

Polenta chips pinch saucy chickpeas

Cut nan chips nevertheless you please: small cubes are nosy aliases thinner strips that get a spot much crunchy. Or, if you’re successful a rush, conscionable make nan polenta a small wetter and service it soft, pinch nan chickpeas complete nan top.

Prep 10 min
Cook 1 hr
Serves 4

Olive oil, for greasing and frying
800ml vegetable stock
1 tbsp dried oregano
200g quick-cook polenta
2 mini onions, peeled and astir chopped
Salt
3 ail cloves, peeled and sliced
2 peppers (any colour), cored, deseeded and astir chopped
1 tbsp basking paprika
400g tin plum tomatoes
1 x 700g jar chickpeas, or 2 400g tins
Grated difficult cheese, specified arsenic Spenwood, to service (optional)

For nan greenish sauce
25g parsley, leaves picked and finely chopped
2 tbsp drained capers, chopped
6–8 cornichons, finely chopped
2–3 tbsp red-wine vinegar, or different vinegar, positive other to taste

Line a mini baking tray pinch nonstick baking insubstantial and swipe lightly pinch oil.

In a saucepan connected a mean heat, bring nan banal and oregano to a bubble. Rain successful nan polenta while stirring pinch a whisk, past navigator connected a medium–low power for 3 to 5 minutes, whisking each nan while. Pour nan cooked polenta into nan prepared baking tray and put successful nan fridge to chill and group for 15-30 minutes.

Meanwhile, power nan oven to 220C (200C fan)/425F/gas 7. Put a baking tray wrong to power up. Put 2 to 3 tablespoons of lipid successful a frying cookware connected a mean heat. Follow pinch nan onions and a bully pinch of salt, and navigator for six to 8 minutes, until opening to soften. Add nan garlic, peppers and paprika, navigator for 2 to 3 minutes, past adhd nan tinned tomatoes pinch their juice, crushing up nan tomatoes a small pinch your woody spoon. Rinse retired nan herb tin pinch astir half its measurement of h2o and adhd to nan pan, followed by nan chickpeas and their juice. Bring to a simmer and navigator for 10-15 minutes.

Cut nan polenta into chips and dress them lightly pinch oil. Carefully region nan basking baking tray from nan oven and abstraction nan polenta chips retired evenly connected top. Bake successful nan oven for 20–25 minutes, turning aft 15 minutes, until crisp.

Meanwhile, operation each nan greenish condiment ingredients together. Taste and adhd brackish and much vinegar, if needed.

Serve nan chickpeas pinch nan polenta chips connected top, scattered pinch grated cheese, if you like, and nan greenish condiment connected nan side.

These recipes are edited extracts from Weeknight Vegetarian: Easy Vegetable Recipes for Lunch & Dinner, by Joe Woodhouse, published by Kyle Books astatine £26. To bid a transcript for £23.40, spell to guardianbookshop.com