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Coconut Oil Roasted Vegies with Maple Toasted Seeds Recipe

written by Christie Connelly

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Coconut Oil Roasted Vegies with Maple Toasted Seeds Recipe

Credit: Christie Connelly

This side dish is the definition of “eat the rainbow every day”. Make it into a main meal salad by serving it mixed with a handful of baby spinach and some pan-fried haloumi or a poached egg.

Serves: 4

Ingredients

Method

  • 2 large portobello mushrooms, thickly sliced
  • 1 red onion, sliced into 8 wedges
  • 500g pumpkin, sliced into 3cm chunks
  • 1 large red capsicum, sliced into 3cm chunks
  • 4 small beetroot, quartered
  • 1 large zucchini, sliced into 3cm chunks
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • Salt & pepper, to taste

  • Maple Toasted Seeds
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • 2 tbsp pine nuts
  • 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
  • 1 tbsp white sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp black sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup
  1. Heat oven to 200°C. Place all vegetables on large roasting tray, separating into their own sections, if you like (this just stops the beetroot juice rubbing onto other vegies and ruining pretty colours of final dish). Drizzle with coconut oil and gently mix each vegetable section to coat. Season with salt and pepper and roast for 20 mins or until tender.
  2. Meanwhile, make toasted seeds. Place coconut oil in small saucepan with pine nuts. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, for 2–3 mins until starting to turn a light golden-brown. Add pumpkin and sesame seeds and cook, stirring, for 30 secs more. Take off heat and stir in maple syrup.
  3. Drizzle over vegies and serve.




  

Christie Connelly

Christie publishes the popular Australian food blog Fig & Cherry featuring healthy, family-friendly meals and sweet treats with mouth-watering photography to match. Christie draws recipe inspiration from her Hungarian and Lebanese heritages, her travel adventures and, of course, the amazing fertile soil of the Northern Rivers with its abundance of local organic fruits, vegetables, delicious native produce and healthy free-range-reared animals. Her passion is educating parents, grandparents and carers how to shop for, prepare and cook healthy, nutritious food and to encourage children to enjoy it as well.

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