Roasted Pumpkin and Labneh with Extra Virgin Olive Oil

INGREDIENTS

  • 800g Jap Pumpkin
  • 1/4 cup Flaked Almonds
  • 150g Labneh with Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 150g Labneh with Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • Pinch Sea Salt
  • Pinch Freshly cracked black pepper
Print Recipe

Pre-heat a fan forced oven to 220 C.

Cut the pumpkin into 6 large even size pieces, keeping the skin on. Line a 30cm x 20cm shallow sided baking tray, evenly space out the pumpkin and drizzle with 3 Tbspn of olive oil and toss to coat all sides and season with sea salt.

Place into the pre-heated oven and roast for 25 minutes then remove and drizzle over the verjuice and return to the oven and roast for another 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, roughly chop the almonds & pumpkin seed and mix together, set aside.

Spoon out the labneh along with the extra virgin oil olive into a small serving bowl, set aside

Remove the pumpkin from the oven, place onto a serving platter, drizzle with the remaining olive oil, sprinkle over the almond mixture, season with cracked pepper, garnish with pea shoots (optional) and serve with labneh.