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Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Bowls

Quinoa topped with roasted squash, chickpeas, and red onion in a lemon-tahini dressing.

Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Bowls, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
45 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$13.30

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup quinoa
  • 1 1/2 lb butternut squash
  • 30 oz canned chickpeas
  • 1 red onion
  • 4 tbsp tahini
  • 2 lemon
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 2 clove garlic
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 5 oz baby spinach

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 425F. Cook the quinoa in salted water according to the package and fluff it.

  2. Peel and cube the squash. Drain and dry the chickpeas.

  3. Toss the squash, chickpeas, and wedges of red onion with 3 tablespoons olive oil, the cumin, smoked paprika, and salt. Spread on two sheet pans.

  4. Roast 28 to 30 minutes, stirring once, until the squash is tender and the chickpeas have crisped at the edges.

  5. Whisk the tahini with the juice of both lemons, the grated garlic, the remaining oil, and enough water to make a pourable dressing.

  6. Build bowls with quinoa, a handful of spinach, the roasted vegetables, and a generous pour of dressing.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 12 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$53.19$13.3012 of 12 ingredients
United Kingdom£29.13£7.2812 of 12 ingredients
Australia$59.13$14.7812 of 12 ingredients
Canada$138.61$34.6512 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٤٥٫٥٥ ج.م.‏‏٢٦١٫٣٩ ج.م.‏11 of 12 ingredients
Greece38,01 €9,50 €10 of 12 ingredients
Spain21,74 €5,44 €10 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$891.04$222.7610 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 26,53€ 6,6310 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$68.47$17.129 of 12 ingredients
Germany29,53 €7,38 €9 of 12 ingredients

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