Moroccan Roasted Carrot Salad

February 7, 2016

Here's a big, brilliant salad that's been sitting alongside my to-make bookmarks for a brace of years. We've genuinely already got a Moroccan carrot salad inwards our archives; past times comparison, this i streamlines the spice listing together with has a greater multifariousness of vegetables. Their roasting is brief - the carrots retain a hint of compaction field the onions are soft. Chickpeas are but barely warmed through together with lemon wedges collapse inwards your hand, spreading juice together with vesicles across the salad.

Everything's warmly spiced with cinnamon together with paprika, field slivered almonds together with dates add together extra texture together with a fleck of sweetness. The master copy recipe too includes a dressing of yoghurt swirled with pomegranate molasses, but nosotros institute that at that spot was plenty of wet together with flavor without it.

This salad would brand a prissy calorie-free luncheon on its own, with the chickpeas lending but plenty essence to satisfy. We teamed it with a watermelon salad for a lovely early on dinner, together with had plenty left to pack for work.

Moroccan roasted carrot salad
(slightly adapted from a recipe on Delicious Everyday)

1 bunch pocket-sized carrots
1 crimson onion
1 lemon
1 clove garlic
1 tablespoon olive crude
two teaspoons smoked paprika
two teaspoons soil cinnamon
1 teaspoon soil cumin
salt, to taste
1/4 loving cup slivered almonds
400g tin can chickpeas
1/3 loving cup dates
1 loving cup infant spinach leaves
1 loving cup rocket

Preheat an oven to 180°C.

Wash the carrots together with bring down off the stalks. Slice each carrot lengthways into 4 or to a greater extent than sticks together with house them inwards a baking tray. Peel the onion, piece it into 8 chunks together with add together them to the baking tray. Slice a lemon lengthways into 4 wedges together with add together them to the baking tray. Mince the garlic together with add together it to the baking tray. Drizzle over the olive oil, thence milk shiver over the paprika, cinnamon, cumin together with salt. Gently toss the veges roughly the distribute the crude together with spices. Bake them for roughly thirty minutes - the carrots volition nonetheless move quite firm, together with the onions should move soft but retaining their shape.

While the veges are cooking, house the almonds inwards a dissever pocket-sized baking dish together with toast them inwards the oven, roughly xx minutes. Be certain to cheque them every v minutes but inwards illustration they quest less fourth dimension - they tin can move quickly.

Drain the tin can of chickpeas. When the roasted vegetables are done, add together the chickpeas to the pan together with stir them to select deal of some of the spicy dressing. Let the vegetables cool downwardly for roughly 10 minutes. Use this fourth dimension to finely chop the dates.

To serve, spread the spinach leaves together with rocket across a serving platter. Arrange the carrots, chickpeas together with onions over the greens; sprinkle with almonds together with dates together with garnish with the lemon wedges.