WARM PUMPKIN AND WALNUT SALAD
WARM PUMPKIN AND WALNUT SALAD
WARM PUMPKIN AND WALNUT SALAD

Ingredients
  • 1 small pumpkin
  • such as Baby Bear or onion squash
  • peeled
  • seeds removed
  • cut into cubes
  • 50ml/2fl oz vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp nigella seeds
  • salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 100ml/3½fl oz clear honey
  • 75ml/2¾fl oz cider vinegar
  • 150g/5½oz walnuts
  • chopped
  • handful fresh watercress leaves
  • 1 shallot
  • peeled
  • finely sliced
  • 125g/4½oz feta
  • crumbled
  • to serve
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
  • Place the pumpkin into a roasting tray. Drizzle over the vegetable oil
  • sprinkle over the nigella seeds
  • then season
  • to taste
  • with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Roast for 20-25 minutes
  • or until softened.
  • Meanwhile
  • heat the honey and cider vinegar in a small frying pan over a medium heat
  • or until dissolved. Stir in the walnuts until well combined.
  • Mix together the watercress leaves
  • shallot
  • roasted pumpkin and pumpkin seeds until well combined. Drizzle over the honey and vinegar mixture and stir until the leaves are coated in the dressing. Sprinkle over the crumbled feta.