Recipes

Baked Vegetable Salad

a bowl of baked vegetable salad

This tasty vegetarian dish is ideal for lunches or barbeques. It can be a meal on its own or pairs well with chicken or lamb. The feta cheese serves to add a salty element, so the vegetables do not need to be salted during cooking.

The quantity in this recipe serves four.

Ingredients

600 grams Pumpkin
500 grams Sweet potato
1 Red capsicum
1 Yellow capsicum
1 green capsicum
Rosemary- 1 sprig
Garlic -3 cloves
12 grams Mixed herbs
Pepper – 2 pinches
3 Carrots peeled and cubed
90 ml extra virgin olive oil
4 Fresh Corn cobs
Fresh Basil – 1 bunch
200 grams Feta cheese

Method

Peel the pumpkin, sweet potato and carrots and cut into cubes about 2 -3 cm square.

Cut the capsicums into strips, removing the seeds and centres, then cut each strip in half.

Remove the skin from the garlic cloves and dice the cloves.

Strip the leaves from the rosemary stalk. Discard the stalk and finely chop the leaves to release their oils.

Preheat the oven to 190 C.

Add the vegetables to a bowl, and mix in the garlic, herbs, rosemary and pepper.

Add 60 ml of olive oil and mix well.

Place the vegetables into an oven-proof dish and spread evenly.

Place the dish in the oven and bake until all vegetables are softened and edges are beginning to crisp.

While the vegetables bake, place the corn cobs in a pot of cold water and bring to the boil.

Cook the corn for 6 – 8 minutes until the kernels are softened.

Remove the pot from the heat, and drain off the water. Set the corn aside to cool.

When the vegetables have softened and have begun to colour at the edges remove the tray from the oven and set aside to cool.

Slice the corn kernels off the cobs.

When cool, place the vegetables in a serving bowl, mix in the corn and crumble in the feta cheese.

Drizzle over the remaining olive oil as a dressing.

Roughly tear the basil leaves and sprinkle over as a garnish.

To vary the recipe, experiment with including other vegetables such as brussel sprouts, beetroot, leeks and zucchinis for delicious variations.

You can use balsamic vinegar as a dressing, or make a vinaigrette by mixing olive oil, red wine vinegar and Dijon mustard.