Shape You Future Healthy Kitchen: Warm Autumn Salad

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TULSA, Okla — Warm Autumn Salad

Serves 6

Ingredients:

1 mean butternut squash (about 2 pounds), (or pre-chopped caller oregon frozen)

1 spoon canola oil

2 teaspoons curry pulverization (optional)

½ spoon salt

¼ spoon achromatic pepper

1 tiny onion, thinly sliced

¾ cupful uncooked pearled barley

1 lb caller spinach, arugula, kale, oregon different greenish of your prime (washed and dried)

1 tin Cannellini beans (or different achromatic bean) drained and rinsed

¼ cupful pome cider vinegar, positive much to taste

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/3 cupful chopped walnuts

1/3 cupful dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 375˚F. Line a expanse cookware with foil oregon parchment paper.
Using a peeler, region the pugnacious tegument from the squash. Divide butternut squash successful half, separating the cervix from the bulb. Cut each portion successful fractional lengthwise. Scoop retired seeds from bulb end. Cut each portion into astir 1” chunks.
Place squash chunks successful a mixing vessel and flip with 1 tablespoonful canola oil, curry powder, brackish and pepper. Transfer chunks to lined expanse cookware and spot successful oven. Roast for 15 minutes.
Add onions to squash and flip well. Continue cooking until squash and onions are tender and squash is opening to brownish slightly.
While squash is cooking, navigator barley by combining barley and 2 ¾ cupful h2o with a pinch of brackish successful a mean condiment pan. Bring to a boil, past trim to a simmer, screen with a lid and navigator astir 20 minutes oregon until liquid is absorbed and atom is tender but not mushy. Remove from vigor and acceptable aside.
On a ample platter oregon 6 idiosyncratic plates, furniture the caller greens, cooked barley, roasted squash and onion, and achromatic beans. Drizzle with vinegar and lipid past apical with walnuts and cranberries. Serve immediately.

Additions and substitutions: This entrée crockery is besides delicious with different types of wintertime squash oregon adjacent saccharine potatoes. Use white, yellowish oregon reddish onion. Try different types of grains alternatively of barley including quinoa, brownish rice, oregon bulgur wheat. Also experimentation with your favourite nuts, dried fruit, and beans!

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