Smashed Chickpeas

Crushing your midweek meals with two zero waste recipes

Gorgeous people, kitchen wizards and witches, zero waste warriors, and health geeks - I’m coming to you today with two fabulous recipes to help create synergy in your kitchen, and assist with some taste bud gyration. Who couldn’t do with more synergy and gyration in their lives, eh?!

If you found yourself baking lots of aqua faba brownies this month because they taste so darn delicious, you may have a freight of chickpeas to get through!? Today’s recipe for spiced chickpeas on sweet potato boats should sort you out.

And if zero waste tickles your dimples (or your wallet), I have another cinchy recipe for you involving those wilting herbs you noticed in your fridge. Each day in Ireland, legions of tired herbs are chucked in the bin where their plastic packaging doesn't break down for decades, and their rotting leaves create a noxious greenhouse gas in landfill called methane. Head-melt! 

“How can such a small act have such a large impact on our planet?" said one million people. You get the picture. Yes, 43% of Irish households have a brilliant brown bin to compost unused food, but I'm on a journey to reduce my brown bin waste as well as my black bin waste.

It's not about penury, it's about respecting our planet, appreciating our farmers, and honouring ourselves.