Forever a Summer Favourite of Mine
Ingredients
- 300 g baby carrots, greens in tact ?
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling✨
- 200 g (1 cup) dry spelt (soaked overnightin cold water) or your whole grain of choice
- 1 medium orange ?
- 2 generous handfuls of kale, finely shredded ?
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar ✨
- 6 whole dried figs, finely chopped ?
- a fistful of crushed roasted hazelnuts ?
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 180C
Place the red onion on a baking tray with the carrots (greensremoved and set aside) and a drizzle of olive oil
Season with salt andpepper and roast for 20 minutes
Once the carrots and red onion have gone into the oven, thoroughlyrinse the soaked spelt and boil over a medium heat for 20 minutesas well
Grate the zest from the orange and set aside
Squeeze the juice fromthe orange
Place the shredded kale in a large bowl along with the 2 tbsp of oliveoil, apple cider vinegar and orange juice, massaging it into the kalefor 5 minutes
Add the cooked spelt, roasted carrots and onion and carrot greens tothe bowl with the kale
Toss in the orange zest, finely chopped dried figs and crushedhazelnuts
Give everything a good mix and feel free to season further with cracked black pepper and sea salt, before drizzling with a little extra olive oil