Turmeric Chickpeas Dinner Platter

Ok, feeback from my community. Apparently you guys want healthy recipe AND you want them to be easy and effortless to prepare. Is this true? If so, I feel like I nailed it with this Turmeric Chickpeas Dinner Platter.

This whole plate is satisfying, delicious and has so much going on in terms of nutrition : healthy fats, healthy protein, vitamin C, beta carotene, even calcium and so much more.

This is my kind of *pure food* that I love! This plate is literally a bunch of leftovers for me. I already had the sweet potatoes and quinoa from the previous night that I just reheated. And I made the turmeric chickpeas while the sweet potatoes were in the mini-oven heating up.

I also love it when my leftovers are NOT boring. I do this with reinventing and/ or adding a new spin on something that’s easy to make. Like the Turmeric Chickpeas and the Spinach Avocado Salad. What I never ever do is portion leftovers and create these boring batch cooking sad-looking meal portions. I’m sorry, if that works for you, that’s totally cool. Stick to it. BUT I just love it more when my food looks beautiful. There’s that whole “you eat with your eyes first” that I am really drawn to. So, this works for me. Maybe I should share how I do batch cooking without ‘batch cooking’. This sentence may not make sense to you, but it makes sense to me. Stay tuned to hear more on this theory of mine. What I feel like we could all use more of is happiness on our plates without fancy IG food pics but just a nice plate of delicious food that is healthy and makes you happy. Am I right? ;)

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Turmeric Chickpeas

Ingredients:

1 large can of chickpeas, rinsed and drained

1/2 medium onion, diced

1 medium carrot, diced

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

1/2 teaspoon cayenne powder

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

fresh cracked black pepper

grapeseed oil for cooking

Directions:

In a medium saucepan, cook the onion and carrot until soft. Add in the chickpeas and season with turmeric, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper until spices are well absorbed, about 2 minutes. Turn off heat and serve.