Warm Autumn Pumpkin Salad with red rice and hummus

Warm Autumn Pumpkin Salad with red rice and hummus

Prep Time:

10 minutes

Cook Time:

40 minutes

Serves:

4-6 People

Cost:

£ £ £

Ingredients

Salad

2 small pumpkins or 1 large squash

500g Rocket and spinach or your prefered mixed leaves

200g Feta cheese

Sunflower and pumpkin seeds or walnuts

Red rice or mixed wild rice

Humus

1 can Chickpeas

2tbsp tahini

Juice ½ lemon

60ml olive oil

60ml water

Salt and pepper

Optional – garlic / roasted red pepper/chilli flakes

Dressing

½ cup soft brown sugar

240ml balsamic vinegar

Warm Autumn Pumpkin Salad with red rice and hummus

This is one of my absolute favourite salads, filling and flavourful it will even leave your most confirmed meat-eating friends satisfied. Hot sweet pumpkin with protein-packed hummus, tangy feta and crunchy seeds to top it all off.

Method

  1. Heat oven to 150c
  2. Cut the pumpkins, in half and scoop out the seed.s if you're using squash peel, deseed and cut into chunks. Cover exposed flesh in oil
  3. Place pumpkin (or squash) in an ovenproof dish and bake for around 40 minutes or until soft.
  4. Meanwhile, cook rice as per packet instructions and cut the feta into cubes
  5. To make the hummus place all the ingredients into your food processor and pulse until combined then continue to blend until smooth
  6. Place the balsamic vinegar into a frying pan and heat until simmering
  7. Add the brown sugar to the pan and stir until dissolved
  8. Without stirring continue to simmer until the vinegar begins to thicken then turn off the heat
  9. In a dry frying pan toast seeds or walnuts
  10. When ready to serve place humus inside the halved pumpkin, add rice and leaves to the plate sprinkle feta over add the sauce and then top with some seeds

Tips

  • You can mix up this recipe by adding pomegranate seeds, olives, roasted peppers and onion or mushrooms.

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