Warm Roast Vegetable Quinoa Salad

Ingredients  

• 1x kumara – sweet potato for those outside of New Zealand (chopped roughly)
• 1x beetroot (cubed)
• 2x red peppers (roughly chopped)
• 1x brown onion (chopped)
• 1x garlic clove (crushed)
• handful Italian parsley (chopped)
• 1x cup quinoa (any color)
• 1x cup quinoa (any color)
• 1x lemon (zest and juice)
• pomegranate seeds (as many as you like)
• black pepper (a few pepper grinder twists)
• olive oil

Method

1. Heat oven to 180C (360F). Line a baking tray with baking paper.
2. Chop all the veggies. Place the kumara (sweet potato), beetroot, onion, and garlic in the oven and roast until ready. (Approx 15 mins)
3. While that’s all cooking rinse the quinoa, place in a pot, add the vegetable stock, and cook until ready.
4. Add all the ingredients to a bowl, season, toss and serve. Yum!

Alternatives 

Want it meaty? Add some grilled chicken.