Bacon Roasted Vegetables
1 hour 10 minutes
Eggplant, sweet potatoes, parsnips, leeks and pears are roasted with bacon and balsamic vinegar. Warming and sweet.
Zoë Harpham
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 1 eggplant, cut into eight pieces lengthways
- 3 orange sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into eight pieces lengthways
- 3 parsnips, quartered lengthways
- 150g baby leeks, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme or 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 2 firm pears, cored and quartered
- 8 rindless short-cut bacon rashers
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hour10min
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Arrange the eggplant, sweet potatoes, parsnips and leeks in a single layer in a wide roasting tin. Use a pastry brush to coat them lightly with oil.
- Sprinkle the thyme over the vegetables and season with freshly ground black pepper. Bake for 25–30 minutes until the vegetables are almost tender, then turn the vegetables and add the pear wedges, turning to coat lightly in oil. Arrange the bacon rashers over the vegetables.
- Return the tin to the oven for 15–20 minutes until the vegetables and pears are tender and the bacon is lightly browned. Drizzle the balsamic vinegar over the roast vegetables and serve hot.
