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This nourishing and delicious Roasted Vegetable Harvest Bowl features maple-glazed roasted pumpkin, crispy cannellini beans, avocado halves coated in hemp hearts, all served alongside a sweet pickled salad. Everything is topped with a creamy vegan ranch dressing that is better than anything you’ve ever tasted!
Autumn and winter are the best times to snuggle up with a warm bowl of food in front of the fire, and this healthy harvest bowl is at the top of my list when I want guilt-free (and gluten-free) comfort food! I love the sweetness of the caramelized roast pumpkin, the nutty flavor from the hemp hearts and cannellini beans, and the creamy textures from the avocado and dressing. This harvest bowl recipe really is the most satisfying and healthy feel-good meal!
Of course, this can be enjoyed at any time of the year! No need to wait for autumn and winter.
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Harvest Bowl Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the pumpkin chunks on a roasting tray, coat in a drizzle of oil, ½ the maple syrup and season. Roast in the hot oven for 30-35 minutes until cooked through and crisping up, shifting halfway.
While the pumpkin is in the oven, Prepare the cannellini beans by coating them in oil and some seasoning. Spread them out in a single layer on a roasting tray. When the pumpkin reaches the halfway mark, pop the cannellini beans into the oven and roast them for the remaining time until they start to crisp.
Mix the vinegar with 20ml of boiling water and the remaining maple syrup to make your sweet pickling liquid. Add in the cucumber half-moons and thin radish rounds and toss until fully coated. Set aside to pickle.
Place the hemp hearts in a pan over medium heat. Toast for 1-2 minutes until lightly browned, shifting occasionally. Remove from the pan on completion and set aside in a shallow dish to cool. Halve and peel the avocados. Gently push the cut side of the avocado halves into the hemp hearts. Season to taste.
Drain the pickling liquid from the cucumber and radish and toss through the green leaves and some seasoning to taste.
Mix together the vegan mayonnaise, cashew nut yoghurt and ¾ of the chives in a small bowl to make your own harvest bowl dressing!
To serve, make a bed of roasted butternut and crispy cannellini beans. Top with the pickled salad and seeded avocados. Drizzle over the chivy vegan ranch dressing and sprinkle over the remaining chopped chives and any remaining toasted hemp hearts.
Substitutions
If you don’t like some of the ingredients, you can easily change them around to what you have close at hand and love!
Pumpkin substitutions could be sweet potato or butternut squash.
Substitute cannellini beans with navy beans or butter beans.
If you don’t have hemp hearts, try quinoa flakes, chopped pumpkin seeds or flaxseeds.
Replace baby spinach with any green leaves.
Storage
Store any leftover salad dressing, roasted pumpkin and beans in an airtight container for up to 4 days. The rest of the harvest bowl ingredients are best eaten fresh.
Top Tip
If you’re short on time, cut your pumpkin cubes even smaller so they cook faster. Just be sure to keep an eye on them to make sure that they don’t burn!
When coating the avocado in the hemp hearts, do it in one dip (Don’t swirl the avocado unless you feel like some hand-made Guacamole)
Keep a close eye on the hemp hearts while you toast them – they can burn easily.
This nourishing and delicious Roasted Vegetable Bowl features maple glazed roasted pumpkin, crispy cannellini beans, avocado halves coated in hemp hearts, all served alongside a sweet pickled salad. Everything is topped with a creamy vegan ranch dressing that is better than anything you’ve ever tasted!
Ingredients
Scale
750gPumpkin Chunkscut into bite sized pieces
Olive oilto drizzle
45mlmaple syrup
360gcannellini beansdrained & rinsed
85mlwhite wine vinegar
150gcucumbercut into half-moons
60gradishrinsed & sliced into thin rounds
45mlhemp hearts
2avocados
120ggreen leavesrinsed
6gfresh chivesrinsed & finely chopped
45mlvegan mayo
85mlcashew nut yogurt
Instructions
Roasting
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the pumpkin chunks on a roasting tray, coat in a drizzle of oil, ½ the maple syrup and season. Roast in the hot oven for 30-35 minutes until cooked through and crisping up, shifting halfway.
While the pumpkin is in the oven, prepare the cannellini beans by coating them in oil and some seasoning. Spread them out in a single layer on a roasting tray. When the pumpkin reaches the halfway mark, pop the cannellini beans into the oven and roast them for the remaining time until they start to crisp.
Pickling
Mix the white wine vinegar with 20ml of boiling water and the remaining maple syrup to make your sweet pickling liquid. Add in the cucumber half-moons and thin radish rounds and toss until fully coated. Set aside to pickle.
Preparing the Greens and Dressing
Place the hemp hearts in a pan over a medium heat. Toast for 1-2 minutes until lightly browned, shifting occasionally. Remove from the pan on completion and set aside in a shallow dish to cool.
Halve and peel the avocados. Gently push the cut side of the avocado halves into the hemp hearts. Season to taste.
Drain the pickling liquid from the cucumber and radish and toss through the green leaves and some seasoning to taste.
Mix together the vegan mayonnaise, cashew nut yogurt and ¾ of the chives in a small bowl.
Dish up!
To serve, make a bed of the roasted butternut and crispy cannellini beans.
Top with the pickled salad and seeded avocados.
Drizzle over the chivey vegan ranch dressing and sprinkle over the remaining chopped chives and any remaining toasted hemp hearts.
Notes
If you’re short on time, cut your pumpkin cubes even smaller so they cook faster. Just be sure to keep an eye on them to make sure that they don’t burn!
When coating the avocado in the hemp hearts, do it in one dip (Don’t swirl the avo unless you feel like some hand-made Guacamole)
Keep a close eye on the hemp hearts while you toast them – they can burn easily.
