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Honey-Roasted Carrots and Parsnips with Quinoa and Rocket

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Honey-Roasted Carrots and Parsnips with Quinoa and Rocket

Perfect served warm as a main or side dish, or cold the next day for lunch, this versatile carrot and parsnip dish has plenty of flavour from the added garlic, rosemary and honey.
Serves 4–6
Total 1 hr 10 min
Prep 10 min
Cook 1 hr
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

This smoky, caramelised all-in-one quinoa salad – if you are a fan of quinoa or salad – is perfect for dinner and then a lunchbox the following day.

Ingredients

3 carrots, peeled and cut into 1cm wedges
3 parsnips, peeled and cut into 1cm wedges
4 cloves of garlic, unpeeled and bashed
2 large sprigs of fresh rosemary
2 bay leaves
1 tbsp honey
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
240g quinoa, rinsed well (red and white is nice, for the colour)
720ml boiling water
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
60g wild rocket, washed
½ lemon, juice only

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C fan/190°C/gas 5. Put the carrots, parsnips, garlic, rosemary, bay leaves, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper into a roasting tin, give it all a good mix with your hands, then transfer to the oven and roast for 1 hour.

After 40 minutes, stir in the quinoa and the water, scraping the bottom of the roasting tin well. Cover with foil, then return to the oven for the final 20 minutes.

Remove the foil, fluff up the quinoa with a fork, and leave to steam dry for 5 minutes. Drizzle over the extra virgin olive oil, taste and season with more sea salt and lemon juice as needed, then stir through the rocket and serve hot or cold.

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From the book: The Roasting Tin: Deliciously Simple One-Dish Dinners

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