Bulghur with Roasted Beetroot, Blood Orange and Kumquats
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Serves: 3-4
 
Bulghur with Roasted Beetroot, Blood Orange and Kumquats. Serves 3-4 as a side dish. Lovely with salmon.
Ingredients
  • 120g bulgur wheat, rinsed
  • 2 medium sized beetroot, cut into wedges
  • 2 yellow carrots, sliced in wedges or roll cut
  • ½ red onion, very thinly sliced (use a mandoline if you can)
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 2 blood orange
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, bashed under the widest part of a chefs knife, skin left on
  • Large handful of coriander, split into leaves and stalks.
  • 6 kumquats, thinly sliced, pips removed
  • sea salt and pepper
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven on 180ºC, then toss the chopped up beets and carrots in a little olive oil and salt. Place separately on a lined baking tray to avoid beetroot colour bleed. Roast for 35 minutes until tender. Remove and cool.
  2. Cook your bulghur wheat according to packed instructions. Cook in stock instead of water if you like. When done, drain if there is any excess liquid (there shouldn't be but just in case), and spread out on a plate or baking tray to full cool.
  3. Marinate your finely sliced onions in the juice of half a lemon and a pinch of salt, this will soften them up nicely.
  4. Take a couple of strips of peel from one of the blood oranges, and add to a frying pan along with the coriander stalks, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, and the bashed clove of garlic. Warm gently for 5 minutes, don't allow to bubble. Remove and reserve the garlic, then strain through a sieve and cool. Mince the garlic and add back in to the strained oil. Add the juice of the other half of the lemon.
  5. Suprême the oranges, by removing the peel & pith with a sharp knife, then carefully slice out the segments from the membrane. If this is too tricky, just slice into rounds.
  6. Now you're ready to put together your salad. Put the cooled bulghur wheat in a large bowl and pour the infused oil & lemon dressing and some black pepper. Add everything else, leaving behind a little of each ingredient to top the salad - cooked beetroot and carrot, blood orange, kumquats, onions and coriander leaf. Taste the salad and adjust seasoning if necessary.
  7. Plate up and top with toasted flaked almonds (or pistachios!).
Recipe by Ceri Jones Chef at https://cerijoneschef.com/bulghur-with-roasted-beetroot-blood-orange-and-kumquats/