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This Roasted Pumpkin Salad is topped Homemade Honey Vinaigrette Dressing, pomegranate seeds, roasted pumpkin seeds and more making it a deliciously flavorful meal or side salad.
Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Homemade Honey Vinaigrette Dressing
I love roasted vegetables. I love all things pumpkin. I love salads. I love eating healthy. So this recipe was definitely a no-brainer for me. I basically combined some of my favorite things and made them into one incredibly delicious meal.
Roasting vegetables brings out a sweetness and adds a heighten flavor to your vegetables, and that is true when roasting pumpkin. Roasting pumpkin intensifies the natural sweetness of pumpkin; therefore making it perfect on it’s own but especially delicious on my Roasted Pumpkin Salad.
I also roasted onions and some pumpkin seeds for this easy salad recipe. Bring on all the roasted deliciousness!
I absolutely love the burst of the pomegranate seeds on this salad.
I used feta cheese, which was absolutely incredible. But my husband is not a feta fan, so he used goat cheese and it was equally as delicious. I mean, how could you go wrong with goat cheese on anything really?
The salad dressing is made from scratch, and incredibly easy to make. You just need lemon juice, honey, olive oil, salt, pepper and some fresh thyme if you have it on hand. This simple honey vinaigrette salad dressing will still be yummy if you don’t have thyme and you don’t feel like running to the store. Trust me, I know the feeling 😉
Alright, let’s get to my Roasted Pumpkin Salad recipe shall we? Be sure to Print It and Pin It so that you can make it again and again. Yes, it’s that good where you will want to.
Roasted Pumpkin Salad
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
Roasted Pumpkin
- 3 ¼ cups Pumpkin
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Crushed black pepper
- ¼ tsp Turmeric
- ½ tsp Honey
Salad
- 1 cup Lettuce
- 1 cup Baby spinach
- 2 tbsp Pomegranate
- 1/4 cup Feta
- 1 Sweet Onion
- 2 tbsp Pumpkin seeds
Salad Dressing
- 3 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Honey
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Crushed black pepper
- Some fresh Thyme optional
Instructions
Roasted Pumpkin
- Preheat oven to 400°
- Clean and slice the pumpkin into thin wedges.
- Take the pumpkin wedges into a bowl and add all the remaining ingredients expect the onion.
- Give it a thorough toss until everything is evenly mixed.
- Cut the onion into thin wedges and brush these with some olive oil.
- Place the pumpkin and onion wedges on a non-stick or prepared baking sheet and roast these in a preheated oven at 400 for about 20 minutes.
Salad Dressing
- Take all the ingredients into a bowl or a glass and whisk it until everything is evenly combined.
- Set aside until ready to use.
Salad Assembly
- Roast the pumpkin seeds in a pan with a few drops of olive oil until they turn crunchy, about 10 minutes.
- Place the lettuce, baby spinach and roasted pumpkin wedges to a large plate or salad dish.
- Pour the dressing all over the salad as evenly as you can.
- Top it with the crumbled feta, roasted onion wedges, pomegranate and toasted pumpkin seeds and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
I hope you enjoy this Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Homemade Honey Vinaigrette Dressing as much as we do!
This Roasted Pumpkin Salad is enough for 2 people for a full meal, you may be able to get 3 meals from it. If you want to make this as a side salad to your featured dish, then this recipe will be enough for 4-5 side salads.
Have you ever roasted pumpkin before? What is one of your favorite salad recipes?
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