Roasted peppers & red onions with warm pomegranate dressing
Warm pomegranates are a revelation when fired whole on the grill. The heat opens up the flavours and helps the seeds pop out, as in this recipe from Honey & Co. Mixing the warm and cold seeds together is a new sensation on the palate too, but if you can only get prepared pomegranate seeds, add to the roasting tray for two minutes at the end so they don’t explode.
- Serves6
- CourseSide
- Prepare20 mins
- Cook30 mins
- Total time50 mins
- PlusMarinating
Ingredients
- 3 red onions
- 2½ tbsp olive oil
- 2 x 180g packs red Romano peppers
- 1 red chilli
- 1 pomegranate
- 20g pack sage
- 2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- ½ x 25g pack flat leaf parsley, leaves only, chopped
Method
Preheat the oven to 230ºC, gas mark 8. Keep the bottom root on the onions, halve and peel, then drizzle or brush the cut sides with ½ tbsp oil. Sprinkle with some sea salt flakes and place face down on a large baking tray.
Pop the onions into the oven for 10 minutes. Cut the peppers into 3-4 cm rings, shake any seeds out, then halve the chilli lengthways and remove the seeds. Halve the pomegranate down the middle.
Remove the tray from the oven, flip the onions, then add half the sage (on the stem), the peppers, the chilli and 1 pomegranate half, face down. Drizzle with 1 tbsp oil, season and cook for 10 minutes more.
Remove from the oven, mix everything together, flip the pomegranate, and return to the oven for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, pick the second uncooked pomegranate half into a small bowl, then add the roughly chopped leaves of the remaining sage, the pomegranate molasses and the remaining oil.
Remove the tray from the oven, add the dressing and mix. When the ingredients are cool enough to handle, remove the stems of sage, break the roasted onions up into petals, scoop the warm seeds out of the cooked pomegranate (discard the white part) and mix again. Transfer to a serving plate, then scatter the parsley over the top and serve.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 484kJ/ 116kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 4.9g |
Saturated Fat | 0.8g |
Carbohydrates | 14.5g |
Sugars | 11.2g |
Fibre | 3.4g |
Protein | 1.6g |
Salt | 0.5g |