Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Sir Paul McCartney's Super Vegetable Salad



I have never been a huge lover of salad, and as a kid, I hated most vegetables. However, I have become quite partial to certain types of salad as I have travelled down life's highway, especially anything containing pumpkin.

The salad featured at the top of this post is surprising because it is way more green than many salads that I would normally eat, yet I enjoyed it immensely.  This warm salad is Sir Paul McCartney's Super Vegetable Salad.  I obtained the recipe from Share: The Cookbook That Celebrates Our Common Humanity, but the recipe is also online here.

The differenced between the version in Share and the Meatless Monday version are that the cherry tomatoes are not roasted in the Share version (although I wish that they had been!), and the tofu is an optional extra.  Otherwise, the recipe is the same.  I used the maple syrup in the dressing, because I am a sweet tooth after all.

This is a very hearty salad which serves as a meal on its own (especially if you add the tofu), or which makes a wonderful side dish (which is how I served it).

If you sometimes get a bit lost as to what to do with veges to make a tasty salad, like I sometimes do, you  can't go wrong with this fabulous super salad.  It tastes good warm (as the recipe is written) or cold (for all of those leftovers).

7 comments:

Cindy said...

hubby and I both love salads--most any kind. This looks delicious.

Blond Duck said...

Pumpkin in a salad? I'm intrigued!

Choc Chip Uru @ Go Bake Yourself said...

Haha I love if it Sir Paul was behind it :P
I love this recipe! This looks fantastic!

Cheers
CCU

Kayte said...

We are a veggie loving family here and my children always ate every vegetable I put in front of them, what are the chances of that??? Anyway, the salad looks wonderful and I will give it a try as we have a small salad here every single day...if I tried to serve dinner without a small salad there would be an outcry!

yummychunklet said...

Well, it looks delicious!

Johanna GGG said...

this looks great and just like the sort of thing that is easy to change around depending on what is at hand - need to go back and bookmark

Kari said...

I'm a bit like you - I've only discovered the potential in salads as an adult. I love them now I know it's not all about iceburg lettuce!