I love watching food shows on the telly. My first memories of one of those is a Jamie Olivier show which I used to watch every Sunday at 1 pm on most days with JB (the son).
And then suddenly there were a plethora of food shows on practically every channel starting with Nigella Lawson and Kylie Kwong on TLC to khunti kodai and ranna ghor on local Bengali channels. I was spoilt for choice. My son watches the shows with me with equal enthusiasm if he is around. When I am surfing, I am usually looking for a food or a cookery show and I can sit through them all.
This recipe is a dedication to my fondness for food shows of which I am a huge fan.
Pumpkin salad
This is a Nigella Lawson recipe which I improvised slightly to suit our dietary requirements and it tastes as good as it looks..
Pumpkin : cut into bite size pieces...... 750 gms
Onions sliced and soaked in vinegar for at least 2 hours... 2 medium size
Pine nuts peeled and roasted......... about 2 tablespoons
Spice mix......1.5 tablespoon (you can use your own combination, I used salt, chilli powder, fennel powder, cajun spice mix)
Thick yoghurt.....2 tablespoons ( the original recipe uses feta)
Parsley and basil ......finely chopped, for garnish
Olive oil..... 2 tablespoon
In a bowl pour 1 tbsp of olive oil and the spice mix on the pumpkin peices and mix thoroghly. Bake the pumpkin on a baking sheet at 180 deg C for about 20-30mins.
Once done, take the pumpkin out and cool. In a mixing bowl, toss the spiced pumpkin pieces with onions, herbs and the pine nuts with the remaining oil. Pour the salad out on to a serving dish and dot the yoghurt unevenly onto the salad and serve garnished with a sprig of fresh parsley... and enjoy!
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