Recipe: pearl barley salad with pumpkin & pomegranate

From vegetarian to vegan recipes, you will find the most delicious oven dishes in the cookbook De Groene Bakplaat . With no fewer than 75 different recipes that you can prepare on a baking sheet, the book is full of tasty dishes to try out. It is also ideal for when you have friends over for dinner. Do all the preparations in advance and let the oven finish the work while you are enjoying drinks. Consider, for example, this autumn dish with pearl barley, pumpkin, and pomegranate. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe: pearl barley with pumpkin & pomegranate

Suitable for: 4 persons
You need:
750 g butternut squash, peeled, cut into 1 cm cubes, the seeds removed from the pumpkin (or a handful of pumpkin seeds if that is easier)
Sea salt
1 teaspoon olive oil
300 g pearl barley, rinsed
700 ml boiling vegetable stock
2 cloves of garlic, pressed
100 g watercress, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
100 g feta, crumbled
Seeds from 1 pomegranate
Freshly ground black pepper

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Recipe: pearl barley with pumpkin & pomegranate

1. Preheat the oven to 220°C. Place the pumpkin cubes in a roasting panSpread the pumpkin seeds on another baking sheet and rub them with a pinch of sea salt and the olive oil.
2. Stir the pearl barley, vegetable stock, and garlic into the pumpkin cubes and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Bake for 1 hour. Place the baking sheet with the pumpkin seeds in the oven after 50 minutes.
3. After an hour, remove the pumpkin and pearl barley mixture from the oven and stir in the watercress, lime juice and olive oil.
4. Finally, sprinkle the feta, pomegranate seeds and roasted pumpkin seeds on top, season with sea salt and black pepper, and serve hot.

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