Name: Bruschetta with mashed chickpeas
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 10-12 pieces
Ingredients: 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained; 1 garlic clove; 1 small tomato; 6-7 walnut halves; 10 basil leaves; 2 spring onions; 1 tbsp olive oil; ½ lemon squeezed; 8 small black olives; a handful arugula; 1 whole-grain baguette; OR lettuce leaves

Need a fast vegan lunch or dinner idea? How about this chickpea recipe? It’s a Mediterranean mashed chickpea bruschetta that takes 5 minutes to make!

Mashed Chickpea Bruschetta

Imagine a crispy bruschetta topped with garlicky Mediterranean mashed chickpeas.

Well, this is exactly it.

It’s loaded with garlic, chickpeas and….drumroll, well you see it: basil.

Can’t resist that combination. If you’re craving something fast, simple and satisfying make these. Why? Because you’ll regret it if you don’t.

When you’re old and people ask you “Do you regret something?”, you’ll show a hologram of these and say in a shaky voice “we regret not making these”.

Alright. Enough with that boring fake story.

Make them, alright?

Solid for dinner, snack or lunch…

These mini bruschettas are solid for a healthy (party) snack, fast healthy lunch and we sometimes even have them for dinner.

All (around) 10 of them.

Health (And Beauty) Benefits

All ingredients in this recipe have health benefits that also benefit your skin and your hair:

chickpeas are high in protein and fiber and help your digestion
basil, garlic & onion boost your immune system, fight cancer and protect your skin from infections that don’t look pretty
lycopene delivers carotenoids that protect your skin from free radical damage
walnuts fight inflammation and might make you smarter
lemon brings collagen-building vitamin C to fight off wrinkles
olive oil brings you vitamin E, which combined with vitamin C from lemon is a solid protection against oxidative stress – thus prevents skin aging

When these foods are brought together they complement each other not just taste-wise, but also health-wise. What one of the ingredients might lack, the other one brings to the table. This makes the combination even more beneficial than each one of these healthy foods on their own.

Enjoy!

Bruschetta with mashed chickpeas

Yield: 10-12 pieces
Prep: 5 minutes
Total: 5 minutes

Ingredients

For the mashed chickpeas:

1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 garlic clove
1 small tomato
6-7 walnut halves
10 basil leaves
2 spring onions
1 tbsp olive oil
½ lemon squeezed
8 small black olives
a handful arugula

Bruschetta:

1 whole-grain baguette
OR lettuce leaves

Method

Clean tomatoes (maybe cut it in ½), arugula, spring onions and basil.
Juice ½ lemon and peel garlic.
In a food processor add chickpeas, arugula, onions, garlic, basil, tomato, walnuts, lemon juice, olives, olive oil. Did we forget something?
Then blend at low speed for a little, so that the mixture is not smooth, but still chunky. This will be different for different food processors – make sure to not let it get smooth – it won’t be that awesome. But we imagine it will as well be pretty good.
We didn’t need to add salt to this, because the chickpeas and the olives were already enough.
Then slice a whole grain baguette on the diagonal into slices that are not too thick. Then toast them – we used our toaster for that – it’s faster than in the oven.
When the bread slices are ready – spread generously from the mashed chickpeas on top. If you don’t eat bread, it’s even easier than that - just wrap the mashed chickpeas into a lettuce.
You can also add some other vegetable on top of that if you’d like – perhaps some lettuce or some avocado.
Enjoy!