January 3, 2011: Quinoa Salad Alongside Persian Dried Lime

Dandenong.  Instead of going the commons road of piercing the limes together with having their fragrance infuse a liquid, they are solid pose down to a pulverisation together with used every bit a seasoning inwards this recipe.  Powdering the limes is easier said than done, every bit Ottolenghi hints inwards his preamble.  Michael went through several rounds of food-processing, mortar-and-pestling together with sieving to yield 2 tablespoons of coarse powder. It's also really heady stuff, amongst Michael complaining of some dizziness (and olfactory hallucinations the side past times side day!) from the intense aroma.

The dried lime lends a unique border to some other salad that's bursting amongst grains together with herbs. Preparing the elements takes some unloose energy (we cooked the iii grains separately, every bit good every bit roasting the sweetness potatoes together with prepping the herbs), but there's lots to part around in ane lawsuit its done together with it keeps good for packed lunches.  (We ate pomegranate tofu on the side, which added farther to the prep examine together with luncheon bounty.)  For a vegan version I'd recommend replacing the feta amongst cubes of smoked or marinated tofu; chickpeas could operate good too.

Quinoa salad amongst Farsi dried lime
(slightly adapted from Plenty past times Yotam Ottolenghi; recipe also appears here)

700g sweetness potato
1/2 loving cup olive stone oil
1/3 loving cup wild rice (needs 1 loving cup water)
a generous 3/4 loving cup basmati rice (needs 1 1/3 cups water)
1 loving cup quinoa (needs 1 loving cup water)
four garlic cloves, minced
3 tablespoons sage leaves, finely chopped
3 tablespoons oregano, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons dried together with powdered Farsi lime
vi tablespoons mint, finely chopped
four dark-green onions, dark-green purpose thinly sliced
juice of 1/2 lemon
200g feta, broken into chunks
tabular array salt together with pepper

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Peel the sweetness potatoes together with chop them into inch-length cubes. Spread them over a baking tray or two, drizzling over one-half the stone oil together with sprinkling amongst tabular array salt together with pepper. Bake the sweetness potatoes until tender but non disintegrating, most xx minutes.

While the sweetness spud bakes, gear upwards the wild rice, basmati rice together with quinoa inwards split upwards saucepans.  In each illustration nosotros covered the grains amongst the required water, brought them to the boil, together with thus simmered until tender.  The basmati rice together with quinoa absorbed their H2O completely, but nosotros drained the wild rice in ane lawsuit ready.  Transfer the cooked grains to a large mixing bowl.

Heat the remaining stone oil inwards a frypan.  Sauté the garlic until lightly golden, thus add together the sage together with oregano together with stir-fry for a infinitesimal more.  Pour the mixture over the grains inwards the bowl.  Gently stir inwards the sweetness potato, lime powder, mint, dark-green onions, lemon juice, feta, together with some tabular array salt together with pepper.  Serve warm or at room temperature.