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Honey Roast Butternut Squash Salad with Chickpeas, Goat’s Cheese and Rocket

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Honey Roast Butternut Squash Salad with Chickpeas, Goat’s Cheese and Rocket

Makes 4 lunchboxes
Total 40 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 30 min
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

This is a delicious lunchbox salad, but it’d also definitely be nice enough to make for friends as part of a sharing dinner. Cumin works wonders with the squash and the lemon dressing lifts the salad at the end. It’s extremely moreish.

Ingredients

1kg butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1cm cubes
1 x 400g tin of chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 red onion, roughly sliced
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 tbsp olive oil
1 heaped tsp ground cumin
1 tsp sea salt flakes
1 tbsp honey
For the dressing:
1 lemon, juice only
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
freshly ground black pepper
To serve:
100g rocket, roughly chopped
125g goat’s cheese, crumbled

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan/220°C/gas 7. Tip the squash, chickpeas and onion into a roasting tin large enough for everything to sit in a single layer (you may want to use the shelf that comes fitted in the oven). Mix through the crushed garlic, olive oil, cumin and sea salt, drizzle over the honey, then transfer to the oven and roast for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, whisk the lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil and black pepper together.

Once the squash is cooked, stir through the dressing and the rocket and top with the crumbled goat’s cheese.

CARB IT UP: For a carbed-up salad, pop 200g bulgur wheat or orzo into the tin along with 400ml vegetable stock. Dress the veg in another bowl or tin before scattering it over the grains and stock, then bake as above. Taste and adjust the olive oil, lemon juice and salt at the end to account for the extra ingredients.

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