Ingredients

  • 140 g canned chick-peas, drained and rinsed
  • 2 treviso radicchio
  • 1 avocado, sliced
  • 2 red onions, peeled and cut into quarters
  • 400 g pumpkin, roasted
  • 4 beetroots, roasted
  • 1 cup celery leaves or 1 cup celeriac, leaves
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • red wine vinegar
  • flat leaf parsley, freshly chopped

Method

  • Preheat oven to 180C.
  • Start with cold water and bring beetroots to boil in their skin with a little salt for 30 minutes until almost cooked.
  • Drain, cool and slip skins from beetroot.
  • Cut into half.
  • Slice pumpkin into wedges with skin on.
  • Place pumpkin and onion on a baking tray on baking paper and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper and roast for approximately half an hour to cook through and caramelise.
  • On a separate tray in the oven on baking paper toss semi cooked beetroot with extra virgin olive oil for 15 minutes.
  • Heat grill pan to high.
  • Slice washed radicchio into quarters removing as much stalk without letting it fall apart.
  • Toss with extra virgin olive oil and grill on both side till well caramelised (about 2 minutes per side).
  • Set aside.
  • Slice avocado in half and cut into chunks and drizzle with lemon.
  • Buy the best quality chick peas you can find.
  • Rinse in fresh water and drain.
  • Using a large bowl combine all ingredients and then to taste add red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil with lots of flat leaf parsley.