Healthy As Heck Chickpea Sheet Pan Recipe With Tomato & Feta Cheese Vegetarian Vegetables Lunch Dinner Side Dishes Gluten-free Sheet Pan Recipes
Here’s a wonderful vegetarian recipe that's baked on a sheet pan. This healthy chickpea bake with tomatoes and feta can be served as a side dish or a main vegetarian lunch or dinner. We all really enjoyed how easy this sheet pan recipe was to put together and how yummy it was hot out of the oven!
To make this healthy vegetarian sheet pan recipe you will need chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, shallots, extra-virgin olive oil, honey, crushed red pepper flakes and feta cheese. The ingredients bake up on a sheet pan in the oven in about 30 minutes. Be sure you're ready to eat when it's done baking because this recipe is best eaten hot out of the oven.
Add this gluten-free recipe to your Meatless Monday rotation or treat it as a side dish to serve with your favorite proteins. And you can't forget about the health benefits of chickpeas, health benefits of tomatoes, and some say feta cheese is the healthiest cheese in the world. See, this recipe really is healthy as heck! Give it a try.
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 to 35 minutes
Total Time: 40 to 45 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 3 cups cooked chickpeas (homemade or 2 15-ounce cans), drained, rinsed and dried
- 2 pints (16 to 20 ounces) cherry tomatoes
- 2 shallots, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 - 2 tablespoons honey (optional)
- 1/2 - 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 - 2 (6- to 8-ounce) blocks feta, sliced 1-inch-thick
Recipe Notes
- Eat this dish immediately because the feta will harden as it cools.
- Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge.
Here's how to make it:
- Place all the ingredients in a bowl except for the feta.
- Toss the ingredients together and season with kosher salt, to taste. Pour the mixture onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Top with the feta cheese.
- Bake in a preheated 400-degree F oven until the chickpeas are brown and the tomatoes are a bit charred and soft.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving
Calories: 552
Total Fat: 32.4g
Saturated Fat: 14.7g
Cholesterol: 76mg
Sodium: 1410mg
Total Carbohydrate: 47.6g
Dietary Fiber: 7.6g
Total Sugars: 10.8g
Protein: 20.6g
Vitamin D: 0mcg
Calcium 484mg
Iron: 3mg
Potassium: 330mg
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