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WINTER IS THE perfect time to enjoy some of the more robust winter vegetables that are at their seasonal best. Because root vegetables are grown underground, away from the elements of the harsh winter weather, they absorb many beneficial nutrients from soil – antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Just what we need at this time of year when our bodies crave energy and immune boosting foods!
There’s a huge variety to choose from when it comes to root vegetables – from the more popular everyday foods like carrots and turnip to celeriac, kohlrabi and beetroot, there is most definitely a root vegetable to suit any meal. Read our six favourite roasted root vegetable recipes below.
1. Roast Balsamic Beetroot, from Donna Hay: If you want to up the stakes with an impressive side, this balsamic roast beetroot is the answer! Roast beetroot also makes a great salad addition, so cook extra to enjoy for lunch the next day.
2. Smokey Roast Sweet Potato Wedges and Vegan Tzatziki, from Healthy Living James: It can be tricky to make “crunchy” sweet potato wedges as they often go soggy but food blogger Healthy Living James has the answer to keep them crisp! An easy recipe that packs plenty of flavour.
3. Harissa Roast Carrots with Yogurt, Lemon and Mint, from Flourishing Foodie: Once roasted, carrots become a sweet and slightly better version of their raw self. Delicious served hot or cold, these roasted carrots would make a showstopper side that you’ll end up making again and again.
4. Whole Roast Celeriac, from A Kitchen in Istanbul: Celeriac is one of the lesser known root vegetables, but it’s widely available in most supermarkets. This is an incredibly simple and flavoursome recipe that would satisfy vegans and meat eaters alike!
5. Parmesan Baked Parsnips, from Delia Smith: Baked until crisp with a parmesan coating, this recipe is guaranteed to make parsnips the star of any dinner. Serve as a side or alongside some pesto mayonnaise as a tasty snack!
6. Balsamic Roasted Onions, from Drizzle and Dip: Yes, onions are classified as a root vegetable! Any variety of onion can be used here, so if you have some red or white onions sitting in the fridge, this is a delicious way to turn them into something creamy and full of flavour.
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Perhaps Simon should take over the Housing Minister position.
Every story about the homeless has a real live human being behind it. Some like this guy make it out of the gutter, alcohol and the rent situation put him in the gutter.
Yet all we hear from FG supporters here is slander with no bounds, as they queue up to pour their vitriolic bile on anyone who’s situation has being highlighted. Everyone is a sponger, a freeloader, wants a mythical free house, never worked in their life. All to justify the neglect of the poor and less well off, and deflect on the huge damage done to society by government policies.
@Dave Doyle: It’s so true it would make you sick. This country is in one horrible mess and the worst thing is it would take something on a revolutionary scale to change it.
Well done to simon services… the goverment s minister regina Doherity has decided to not give xmas bonus this year is she fr real ??? Pay rises were given to herself and her cohorts but the rest of us are crippled with high taxs we are paying the higest mortgage rates in the EU.. car tax insurance is also higher..half the country are homeless ..hope this goverment including fianna fail who are supporting their decisions are destroyed in the next election…they are not fit fr purpose
@Mari: we are not the most expensive country in the EU, also renting is more prominent in other countries. Yes we have a massive problem with homelessness and people living in emergency accommodation we are not the worst in EU either. This does not mean I think anyone should be let off the hook for the shambles the country is in, but the people here need to take off the rose tinted glasses
@GClare: we absolutely are one of the most expensive countries for gas, electricity, insurance, food, housing and so on.
When you include taxes we get little in return by way of services for all, such as healthcare.
The only person with rose tinted glasses here is you. You clearly haven’t been living in Ireland the last 10years with that attitude.
@Regina Farrell: By your rationale, the government should have their salaries suspended. Certainly housing, justice, healthcare, transport and the Taoiseach. Manipulating the system and doing sweet effay in return.
@Mari: since when is 10,000 People half the country?
Fair play to Geoff! Onwards..Great admiration for a person homeless after 7 years and to come back. With the right people anything is possible!
@paul christopher cox: Indeed, imagine if FF/FG/labour gave as much of a care, what might be possible… Geoff and many more might’ve been contributing to our society if our governments had actually come up with solutions instead creating the problems in the first place.
Pity they don’t finance ngo’s the same way public servants are. Staff at NGO’s are the cheap version of public services and are expected to do similar work.
@Brian Smith: now that really does depend on the NGO; take a look into background of charities, remember the scandal a few years ago, that was not made up!!! And it is world wide not just Ireland
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