Roasted Sweet Potato and Cranberry Salad

A hearty dish stuffed with wheat berries sweet potatoes tossed with greens & a warming apple cider-cinnamon dressing. A healthy fall facet or main.

Roasted Sweet Potato and Cranberry Salad

In one version or another, we’ve in all probability eaten  this dish 5 times within the last number of weeks. i do know everyone’s style of hooked on sweet potatoes at the instant, and that i guess I’m no totally different.

Two things i really like most regarding sweet potatoes are: one. They take less strength and finger-losing risk than butternut squash, and 2. Once you pop them within the kitchen appliance, the house virtually instantly smells like Thanksgiving.

Ingredients :

• 1½ cups burned wheat berries (about ¾ cup uncooked)
• 1 giant sweet potato, sliced into cubes
• 2 cups mixed greens (baby kale, spinach, arugula, etc.)
• ⅓ cup dried cranberries
• ⅓ cup broken feta
• ¼ cup cooked pumpkin seeds (toast on alittle frying pan for thirty seconds or so)
• Pinch red pepper flakes

For the dressing:

• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin vegetable oil
• 1 clove, minced
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1 teaspoon apple vinegar
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 4 sage leaves, finely sliced
• Sea salt and recent black pepper

Instructions :

Roast the sweet potatoes:

1. Heat up your kitchen appliance to four hundred degrees.
2. Chop the sweet potato into bite-sized cubes.
3. Drizzle with some vegetable oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and roast within the kitchen appliance for 20-30 minutes, or till the perimeters begin to show darker and roasty. (In the picture I actually have some sage on my baking sheet, you'll be able to roast your sage therefore it gets a touch crisp, however take it off before the sweet potatoes ar done).

Make the dressing:

1. In an exceedingly little bowl, whisk along the vegetable oil, garlic, honey, apple vinegar, cinnamon, sage, salt, and pepper. style and regulate seasonings, and put aside.
2. Place the greens in an exceedingly giant bowl. Toss the nice and cozy wheat berries and hot sweet potatoes over them in order that they wilt slightly from the warmth. Add the dressing, the maximum amount or very little as you wish. Toss. Add the cranberries, feta, pumpkin seeds, and a pinch of red pepper flakes. Gently toss once more. style and regulate seasonings, and serve.

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