Kenji Morimoto’s Recipe For Root Vegetable Rösti With Crisp Chickpeas

I’m a sucker for a rösti, and I genuinely judge it makes nan champion breakfast, brunch – aliases immoderate meal, really. This 1 leans into nan astonishing varieties of guidelines vegetables we person astatine our disposal, and it is particularly stunning erstwhile layered and presented pinch each of nan different elements: a bold mustard aïoli, crisp curried chickpeas, and an easy parsley and reddish bulb crockery that is quick-pickled to supply an acidic decorativeness to a satisfying dish.

Root rootlike rösti, crisp chickpeas pinch parsley, reddish bulb pickled crockery and mustard aïoli

These rösti are easy to customise (although I’d propose going for a operation of astatine slightest 2 guidelines vegetables); they frost well, too, making those lazy play brunches that overmuch easier.

Prep 30 min
Cook 30 min
Serves 2-4

For nan chickpeas
400g tin chickpeas, drained
2 tbsp oliva lipid
½ tsp brackish
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp smoked paprika

For nan salad
80g reddish onion, peeled and thinly sliced
10g parsley leaves
Zest of 1 lemon, positive juice of ½
1 tsp sumac
1 pinch salt

For nan mustard aïoli
100g mayonnaise
1 tbsp English mustard
Juice of ½ lemon

For nan rösti
300g guidelines vegetables (such arsenic beetroot, saccharine potato, parsnip), peeled and grated
80g reddish onion, peeled and thinly sliced
2 tbsp plain flour
1 egg
Neutral oil, for cooking

Heat nan oven to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6 and statement a baking expanse pinch baking paper. Pat nan drained chickpeas barren pinch room towel, past extremity them connected to nan lined sheet. Add nan oliva oil, brackish and spices, flip well, past cook for 15-20 minutes, until crisp.

For nan salad, usage your hands to operation each nan ingredients successful a bowl, mildly massaging nan parsley and reddish bulb arsenic you do so. You tin do this a fewer hours successful advance, aliases moreover nan nighttime before.

For nan aïoli, operation each nan ingredients successful a vessel and play to taste.

In a ample bowl, harvester each nan ingredients for nan rösti. Put a generous glug of neutral lipid successful a frying cookware connected a low-medium heat, past spoon successful half nan rösti substance and flatten into a circle. Leave to navigator for 5 to 7 minutes, until nan edges crisp up and nan guidelines releases itself from nan pan, past cautiously flip and navigator for different 5 to 7 minutes connected nan different side, until golden. Transfer to a sheet and support lukewarm successful nan residual power of nan oven while you repetition pinch nan remaining rösti mix. If you’re serving much people, aliases want an easier clip flipping nan rösti, make them smaller, but carnivore successful mind that nan cooking clip per broadside will beryllium shorter.

To assemble, put nan rösti connected a platter, drizzle nan mustard aïoli connected top, followed by a sprinkling of nan crisp chickpeas and a generous heap of nan pickled salad. Save immoderate leftover chickpeas aliases aïoli to usage successful salads aliases sandwiches.

• Ferment: Simple Ferments and Pickles, and How to Eat Them, by Kenji Morimoto, is published by Pan Macmillan astatine £22. To bid a transcript for £19.80, sojourn nan guardianbookshop.com