Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 small acorn squash
  • 2 red beets
  • 1 golden beet
  • 1 serrano pepper
  • 1 bunch white asparagus
  • 1 ear of corn
  • 2 radishes, large, sliced thin
  • 1/2 cup lentils (cooked)
  • 1/4 cup feta (preferably Bulgarian)
  • 1/4 cup cilantro
  • 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
  • sumac
  • paprika
  • turmeric

Method

  • Preheat oven to 450.
  • Prep the veggies: Peel the beets and cut into 1/8ths. Smash the garlic and roughly chop. De-seed the pepper and finely chop. Peel the white asparagus and cut into 2" segments. Peel the squash and cut into small chunks.
  • In a large bowl, add the olive oil, beets, squash, asparagus, garlic and pepper. Sprinkle generously with salt, paprika and turmeric. Mix well and spread evenly on a baking sheet covered in parchment.
  • Place in oven and roast for 25 minutes. Halfway through, pull out and mix everything up.
  • While the vegetables roast, prepare everything else. In the same bowl you used to mix everything, add the ear of corn, sliced radishes, cooked lentils and feta cheese.
  • Place cilantro on cutting board. Sprinkle evenly, and generously, with sumac. Mince the cilantro until it is almost a paste.
  • Toast your pumpkin seeds in a dry pan.
  • When you pull the vegetables out, toss well with the mixture in the bowl.
  • Plate: Should serve two as a meal or four as a side. The mixture should go in the bowls, and then be topped with the cilantro-sumac mixture and toasted pumpkin seeds.