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Quinoa and roasted chickpea bowl

A colourful bowl of quinoa, crisp vegetables and spice-roasted chickpeas.

Quinoa bowl with roasted chickpeas, avocado, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots and leafy greens.
480 kcal per servingPrep time: 25 minServings: 1LunchPlant-basedFibre-rich

Ingredients

  • 60 g dry quinoa
  • 120 g cooked chickpeas
  • ½ avocado
  • ½ cucumber
  • 8 cherry tomatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 tsp olive oil and lemon

Method

  1. Cook the quinoa according to the packet instructions.
  2. Toss chickpeas with oil and spices, then roast for 15 minutes at 200°C.
  3. Arrange quinoa, vegetables, avocado and chickpeas in a bowl; dress with lemon.

Calories in context

At 480 kcal per serving, this dish is about 24% of a 2000 kcal daily reference intake — the standard reference amount used on nutrition labels, not a personal target.

Eaten as the midday meal in a three-meal day, it is one part of a day whose real total depends on your own body, activity level and goals, not on any single recipe. For a calorie range that reflects those, rather than a generic reference figure, the tools below can help.

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