Roasted Sweet Potato Salad

Name: Roasted Sweet Potato Salad
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 Baby Beets (roasted and diced); 118 milliliters Dried Tart Cherries; 1 Medium Cucumber (diced); 6 Tbsps Goat Cheese; 2 servings Kosher Salt; 8 Mint Leaves (chopped fine); 8 ounces Mixed Salad Greens (baby arugula, mache, baby bibb, baby spinach, frisee, etc.); 2 servings Olive Oil (for drizzling); 118 milliliters Pistachio Nuts (chopped); 0 Red Onion (sliced very thin); 2 Medium Sweet Potatoes (roasted and diced); 1 Handful Parsely (chopped)

Roasted Sweet Potato Salad is a gluten free, primal, and vegetarian side dish. This recipe serves 2. One portion of this dish contains roughly 21g of protein, 38g of fat, and a total of 638 calories. The Fourth Of July will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. A mixture of salad greens, tart cherries, pistachio nuts, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy.

Instructions

For Roasted Beets and Sweet Potatoes

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Sweet Potato

Beet

Preheat oven to 425 degrees Farenheit.

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Oven

Place baby beets in foil (tops removed), drizzle with olive oil and tightly close foil around beets.

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Baby Beets

Olive Oil

Beet

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Aluminum Foil

Spread diced sweet potatoes on baking sheet drizzle with olive oil (using your hands mix sweet potatoes and olive oil to ensure all sides of sweet potatoes are coated in oil) and sprinkle with kosher salt.Once oven is heated, place foil packet of beets on one rack and baking sheet of sweet potatoes on the top rack. Roast for 60 minutes. Half way through the roasting time, stir the potatoes.

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Sweet Potato

Kosher Salt

Olive Oil

Potato

Spread

Beet

Cooking Oil

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Baking Sheet

Aluminum Foil

Oven

Remove both beets and potatoes from oven to cool.Once the beets are cool open the foil packet. Peel the beets, the skins will slip right off just using your fingers.

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Potato

Beet

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Cut off any rough spots and dice.For Salad Dressing

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Salad Dressing

In a small bowl add first 6 ingredients and stir to combine. Be careful when adding the blood orange juicethis stuff stains.

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Blood Orange

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Bowl

Drizzle in olive oil while constantly stirring so that everything thoroughly mixed.Set aside.For Pistachio Crusted Goat Cheese

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Goat Cheese

Olive Oil

Pistachio Nuts

Place chopped pistachios on a small plate.

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Pistachio Nuts

Roll one half of each tablespoon of goat cheese into a ball. You can make these whatever size you like.

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Goat Cheese

Roll

Roll each goat cheese ball into the chopped pistachios and set aside.For Salad

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Goat Cheese

Pistachio Nuts

Roll

In a large bowl add salad greens, parsely, mint, red onion, dried tart cherries, cucumber and roasted sweet potatoes.If the dressing has started to separate, re-stir.

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Dried Tart Cherries

Sweet Potato

Greens

Red Onion

Cucumber

Mint

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Bowl

Drizzle the dressing onto the salad greens. You can use as much or as little as you like (you can always serve the leftover dressing with the salad). If you use too much dressing, your greens will get saturated and wilt.Using tongs or 2 forks, lightly toss the dressing and greens together.

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Greens

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Tongs

Serve greens on plates.

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Greens

Add roasted beets (these arent added earlier because they will turn everything purple when you are tossing the salad greens).Top with pistachio crusted goat cheese and serve.Welcome to My Man's Belly! Leave me a comment and let me know what you think about the site or if there's a recipe you'd like to see here. Have a great day.Like this? You'll love these:Fall Kale Salad with Quinoa

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Greens

Goat Cheese

Pistachio Nuts

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