Cumin-Coriander Roast Carrots with Pomegranates and Avocado

04.21

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My indecision was due to ii unlike salads involving roasted carrots. In the Harissa Roast Carrots , White Beans , too Dill recipe , the carrots are roasted with harissa , too lemon slices are roasted with them too added to the salad. I loved the thought of the roasted lemon slices. In the recipe for Cumin-Coriander Roast Carrots with Pomegranates too Avocado , the carrots are roasted with a drizzle of olive crude , cumin seeds , crushed coriander seeds , too crushed ruddy chile flakes. I ended upward going with the 2d pick too adding lemon slices to the pan acre the carrots roasted. This salad was a brilliant mix of pomegranate seeds , avocado slices , a tangy dressing with pomegranate molasses , too crunchy walnuts. I used frisee that I flora at Boggy Creek Farm rather than watercress for the salad greens. And , I had around pretty too colorful carrots from my CSA. My carrots were unlike sizes. So , around of them were halved too other quartered lengthwise earlier roasting. Also , I don't lead maintain cilantro growing inwards my herb garden correct immediately , but I produce lead maintain parsley too used that instead. 

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Cumin-Coriander Roast Carrots with Pomegranates too Avocado 
Recipe reprinted with publisher’s permission from Simple: Effortless Food , Big Flavors

Serves half dozen equally an appetizer , or 8 equally a side dish 

For the salad 
30 immature carrots , ideally slim 
1/4 loving cup extra virgin olive oil 
2 teaspoons cumin seeds 
1 1/2 teaspoons coriander seeds , crushed 
1 teaspoon chili flakes 
salt too pepper 
3 ripe avocados 
3 1/2 tablespoons walnut pieces , toasted 
3 1/2 oz watercress , coarse stalks removed leaves from a minor bunch of cilantro 
1 loving cup Greek yogurt 
1 garlic clove , crushed 
seeds from 1/2 pomegranate 

For the dressing 
1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses 
1 garlic clove , crushed 
1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard 
1/3 loving cup extra virgin olive oil 
1/4 teaspoon honey 
squeeze of lemon juice 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Trim the carrots at the top but exit a niggling of the light-green tuft on. If you lot can’t discovery slim carrots , halve or quarter large ones. Don’t pare the; merely launder them well. Put inwards a roasting pan inwards which they tin prevarication inwards a unmarried layer. Add the olive crude , spices , too seasoning. Turn the carrots over inwards this to ensure they are all good coated. Roast inwards the oven for close xxx minutes; they volition cash inwards one's chips tender too shrink slightly. Be careful non to overcook them. 

To brand the dressing , merely crunch everything together with a fork. Halve too pit the avocados , cutting into slices , thus carefully pare each slice. Put everything except the yogurt , garlic , too pomegranates into a wide shallow bowl (or onto a platter) too gently toss inwards three-quarters of the dressing. Mix the yogurt with the garlic too point spoonfuls of this alongside the vegetables , thus scatter with the pomegranate seeds. Spoon on the balance of the dressing too serve. 

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