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Chickpea, Spinach & Wild Mushroom Roulade

Makes 2 roulades

Since a roulade is essentially flattened meat wrapped around veggies or other ingredients, a vegetarian version isn’t always easy to think up. I saw variations using omelettes and flavoured dough to stuff with veggies, but I wanted a cop out so here is my easy version! It was absolutely delicious if I must say so myself. If you are serving this as the main, serve it alongside soup, salad, some roasted eggplant perhaps? A delicious veggie meal. Next time, I will make the roll from scratch, but for now, here’s the easy version.

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What you need:

1 package president’s choice puff pastry (contains 2 rolls)
1 red onion diced
1 cup cremini mushrooms diced
1 cup oyster mushrooms diced
½ cup diced red bell pepper
½ cup diced green bell pepper
¼ cup chopped basil
1 piece sundried tomato diced
½ bunch fresh spinach chopped
1 can chickpeas
Salt to taste
Black pepper to taste
1 tbsp olive oil
Lemon juice from 1 lemon
Hot sauce or chillies of your choice. I used  2 to 3 tsps of an AMAZING home made hot sauce I picked up from downtown that’s made with Anaheim Chillies. Ridiculously good!
2 to 3 tbsp low fat herb and garlic cream cheese to bind the veggies and make them gluey (optional)

How to:

  1. Thaw the puff pastry as per the instructions 
  2. Heat the olive oil on medium high heat (maintain this high temp throughout the process of sautéing the vegetables)
  3. Add in the chopped onion and fry for 3 minutes or so 
  4. Add in the chickpeas and salt and pepper and continue to fry for 5 minutes 
  5. Add in the mushrooms, green and red peppers and fry for 5 minutes
  6. Add in the spinach and sun dried tomato and fry on the medium high heat still
  7. The vegetables will release some water so keep em moving and frying 
  8. Add in the hot sauce of your choice, chopped basil, and half of the lemon juice 
  9. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
  10. Continue to cook until the water starts drying up and then take off the heat and add in the remaining lemon juice 
  11. Once the mixture is warm but not hot, add in the low fat cream cheese if you’re using it and taste the mixture for salt and pepper
  12. Set aside to cool completely 
  13. Once the mixture is not warm/hot any more, place it in the puff pastry and roll however you want. I have shown 2 methods: 1 where you simply place the mixture in a large pile and fold over the dough and the 2nd, where you spread the mixture flat and roll up the dough like a swiss roll/roulade. Either works! You get more puff pastry in the latter and more mixture in the first method. 
  14. Bake until golden brown and serve warm with some yoghurt and mint dip if you like or on its own 

ENJOY!

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