Description
Jamie Oliver’s roast vegetable salad combines Mediterranean flavors with fresh ingredients. Colorful roasted vegetables mingle with crisp greens, creating a delightful dish you’ll savor from first bite to last.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 long red peppers
- 2 yellow peppers
- 6 plum tomatoes
- 2 large red onions
- 6 cloves garlic
- 4 tbsps (60 ml) extra virgin olive oil
- Extra virgin olive oil (for drizzling)
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) baby capers
- 1 tsp (5 ml) paprika
- ½ lemon
Instructions
- Preparation: Ignite the oven to 428°F (220°C), positioning a roomy tray for vegetable transformation.
- Vegetable Prepping: Slice tomatoes in half, quarter onions, and arrange whole garlic cloves and peppers onto the baking surface. Lavish with olive oil and sea salt, ensuring comprehensive coating.
- Roasting Process: Bake vegetables for 45 minutes until they caramelize and develop a rich, charred complexity. Remove roasted peppers, delicately peel away their exterior skin, deseed, and slice into elegant strips.
- Flavor Fusion: Transfer roasted vegetables into a spacious mixing vessel, including all residual cooking essences. Introduce extra virgin olive oil, zesty lemon juice, briny capers, and warm paprika.
- Seasoning Symphony: Generously season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, balancing flavors through gentle hand mixing to ensure harmonious distribution.
- Presentation: Cascade the roasted vegetable ensemble onto a serving platter, embellish with a gossamer drizzle of olive oil, and present either warmly or at ambient temperature for a vibrant culinary experience.
Notes
- Prep Timing: Allocate a full hour for this recipe, including 45 minutes roasting time and 15 minutes preparation.
- Temperature Control: High heat creates signature charred exterior and caramelizes vegetable sugars, enhancing deep flavor profiles.
- Skin Management: Removing pepper skins prevents bitter taste and creates smoother, more refined texture in final salad.
- Seasoning Strategy: Taste and adjust salt and pepper incrementally, allowing each layer of ingredient to develop its unique flavor character.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Lunch, Dinner, Appetizer
- Method: Roasting
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
- Calories: 210
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 5 mg
- Fat: 20 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 17 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 12 g
- Fiber: 4 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg