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Mediterranean Buddha Bowl

Brenda Janschek
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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 1 medium eggplant diced into small cubes
  • 1 large zucchini diced into small cubes
  • 1/4 cauliflower chopped to similar size to eggplant and zucchini
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 6 meatballs or you could use felafals or chickpeas, I used meatballs because that's what I had in the fridge, I just bought them from my butcher
  • 1 small red or brown onion chopped
  • 1 cup basmati rice
  • 2 cups water
  • 1/4 red cabbage finely sliced
  • 1/2 carrot grated
  • 1-2 tablespoons mint finely chopped

Tahini Dressing

  • 1 garlic clove
  • 2 tablespoons tahini make sure you stir the tahini in the jar first
  • Juice from half a lemon
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 7 tablespoons warm water
  • pinch sea salt
  • shake of paprika sweet or smoked
  • Hummus optional find the link to my recipe below.

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 175 degrees.
  • Pop eggplant, zucchini and cauliflower onto a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and using your hands, mix olive oil through. (Note: you could bake any of your child's favourite vegetables for this). Sprinkle with salt and pepper and pop in the oven.
  • After 20 minutes remove from oven and pop meatballs on the same tray and put back in the oven for another 20 minutes, or until meatballs are cooked. Remove from the oven and chop up the meatballs.
  • While the vegetable/meatball tray is in the oven, heat olive oil in a small pan on the stove and add the onion. Saute for around 5 minutes.
  • Add the rice and stir it through the onion, add 2 cups of water and bring to the boil. Lower heat to a very low simmer and cook rice and onion with lid on for 15 minutes. Once rice is cooked, turn off the heat, and mix through the baked vegetables and meatballs.
  • While the rice is cooking throw together the cabbage, cabbage, carrot and mint to form a salad

Dressing instructions

  • Pop all the ingredients into a Magi-Mix or blender, blend until smooth

To Serve

  • Put some salad into a bowl and the rice mix next to it and drizzle over lots of tahini.
  • Serve with a generous dollop of hummus.
  • Or you can serve it deconstructed as I have in header pic.