Traffic Light Salad

Name: Thermomix recipe: Traffic Light Salad
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 50 min
Ingredients: 1/2 butternut pumpkin, sliced and peeled; 1 eggplant, sliced; 1 capsicum/bell pepper yellow; 1 capsicum/bell pepper green; 1 capsicum/bell pepper red (these are the traffic lights); Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) for roasting; 2-3 Pinches pink salt flakes; 1 or 2 ripe avocados; 200 Grams rocket leaves (arugula); 50 Grams pine nuts, toasted; Balsamic Glaze or vinegar to taste

Serves 6 Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 50 minutes Rated: Print

A super simple side dish packed with flavour and colour. Get your veggies anyway you can. This recipe requires no Thermomix and is delicious!

I love the flavour of Roasted Vegies and this is a purler of a salad because of the beautiful flavours and colors, so spoil yourself and your family and use a beautiful roasting pan. You could even serve it in the pan if you were pushed for time, though we do like arranging it in layers as pictured. It is a little bit special. And to be honest, one of the easiest recipes around, no Thermomix required! You could add a little crumbled feta on top if you wanted to.

Cue the roast beef, or use this as a great vegetarian main!

Try any of our other fantastic salads for either the whole meal or as a side to something more substantial. We do salads very well around here:

Pumpkin and Kale Salad

Crunchy Prawn Salad with Lime Leaf

Tenina’s Asian Beef Salad

Steamed Pork Fillet With Black Bean Dressing

L entil, Bean and Halloumi Salad

Caesar Salad

Kale Chicken & Brown Rice Salad

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Need

1/2 butternut pumpkin, sliced and peeled
1 eggplant, sliced
1 capsicum/bell pepper yellow
1 capsicum/bell pepper green
1 capsicum/bell pepper red (these are the traffic lights)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) for roasting BUY
2-3 Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
1 or 2 ripe avocados
200 Grams rocket leaves (arugula)
50 Grams pine nuts, toasted
Balsamic Glaze or vinegar to taste Recipe

Do

1: Preheat oven to 200°C. Line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
2: Cut the pumpkin, eggplant and capsicums into similar size slices. Place onto prepared trays. Drizzle with EVOO and season with salt. Roast for 30-40 minutes. Cool.
3: To assemble salad, lay the rocket on a large platter then arrange all the vegetables including the avocado in colorful slices.
4: Sprinkle with pine nuts and a drizzle of balsamic glaze.

Sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and just before serving drizzle with balsamic vinegar or glaze.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!