Try this easy Pumpkin Quinoa Bowl recipe for a fun and fresh take on one of our favourite seasonal vegetables: pumpkin. If you can’t find a pumpkin, a butternut squash works just as well and is just as delicious!
Serves 2
Ingredients:
– 1 pumpkin or butternut squash, cut in half and seasoned with salt and pepper and oil
– 100g mixed seeds and nuts
– Handful raisins/cranberries
– 80g uncooked quinoa
– 1 large handful parsley, chopped
Method:
1. Roast the pumpkin or squash in an oven at 180C for roughly 20 minutes or until cooked.
2. In the meantime cook the quinoa and toast the nuts in a dry pan.
3. Add them to the raisins/cranberries, parsley and the cooked quinoa.
4. Once the pumpkin/squash has cooked then fill with the quinoa mix and and enjoy!
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