A healthy, hearty salad that will keep you coming back for more! Simply chop ingredients and mix for an easy simple vegetarian lunch. Roasted Pumpkin and Burghul Salad with Chargrilled Haloumi makes the most of in season pumpkin.
Roasted Pumpkin and Burghul Salad with Chargrilled Haloumi Recipe
Serves 4
Ingredients:
850g piece pumpkin, deseeded, peeled and cut into 3cm pieces
¼ cup olive oil
1 large orange, shredded rind and ½ cup juice
1 tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground coriander
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¾ cup burghul
120g baby spinach leaves
½ cup walnuts, roughly chopped
250g haloumi, drained, cut into 1cm-thick slices
Method:
Preheat oven to 200C. Put pumpkin onto a lined tray and spray with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and roast for 25 minutes or until tender. Combine oil, orange rind, orange juice, cumin, coriander and cinnamon in a jug. Set aside.
Put burghul into a bowl and cover with 1¼ cups of boiling water. Stand for 20 minutes or until almost all liquid has been absorbed. Drain and return to bowl. Add pumpkin, spinach leaves, walnuts and dressing. Toss until well combined. Transfer to a serving platter.
Heat a chargrill pan over a medium heat. Cook haloumi slices for 1 minute on each side or until golden. Mix haloumi slices into salad. Serve.
