Recipes
Coffee bean roasted vegetable salad with quinoa
15 minutes Preparation time
45 minutes Cooking time
10 Serves Serves
Ingredients
Quinoa
100 g (½ cup) quinoa
125 ml (½ cup) water
Vegetables
1 cauliflower, cut into quarters
½ (450 g) butternut pumpkin, peeled and cut into 3 cm pieces
4 red onions, peeled and quartered
2 red capsicums, halved, seeds removed
1 large (450 g) sweet potato, peeled and cut into 3 cm pieces
2 medium zucchinis, halved lengthwise
50 ml olive oil
Salt flakes and pepper, to taste
250 g (1 cup) coffee beans
Dressing
50 ml olive oil
50 g pomegranate molasses
8 black garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
1 lemon, juiced
To serve
150 g fetta cheese, crumbled
1 pomegranate, seeds removed
60 g pistachios, roasted and crushed
½ cup mint leaves, torn
Salt flakes and pepper, to taste
Method
Quinoa
- Place the quinoa and water into an unperforated steam container. Place into the steam oven and Steam at 100°C for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool at room temperature.
Vegetables
- Preheat the combi steam Pro oven on Fan Plus at 180°C.
- Place the vegetables into a large bowl with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Spread the coffee beans onto a universal tray and arrange the vegetables on top. Place the tray on shelf level 1. Select Combi mode: Fan Plus at 200°C + 40% moisture + 50 minutes.
Dressing
- Combine the olive oil with the pomegranate molasses, black garlic and lemon juice to taste. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
To serve
- Remove the roasted vegetables from the tray and discard the coffee beans.
- Cut the capsicum and zucchini into large chunks.
- Combine the vegetables and quinoa in a large bowl and gently toss in three-quarters of the dressing.
- Arrange on a serving platter, garnishing with the crumbled fetta, pomegranate seeds, pistachios and torn mint.
- Drizzle with the remaining dressing.
Hints and tips
- Pomegranate molasses can be purchased from specialty supermarkets or Middle Eastern stores.
- Replace the water with the same quantity of chicken or vegetable stock when steaming the quinoa.
- Couscous can be substituted for the quinoa, use the same ratios of grain and liquid.
- The vegetables can be cooked in a Moisture Plus oven: Select Moisture Plus with Fan Plus at 200°C with 3 manual bursts of steam, releasing a burst of steam at 1 minute, a second burst of steam at 10 minutes, and a third burst of steam at 30 minutes.
Applicance Functions
Miele
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