Cauliflower, peppers, buckwheat

Ingredients for 2 portions:

  • 1 cauliflower
  • 2 red onions
  • olive oil
  • 150g roasted buckwheat grain
  • 3 red Romano peppers
  • 60g almonds
  • 10g garlic (about 2 cloves)
  • 30g olive oil
  • 20g red wine vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon Chipotle chilli powder (or a mix of smoked paprica powder and chilli powder)
  • 0.25 teaspoon salt

Methods:

  • Preheat the oven to 200C.
  • Cut the peppers in half (or into 3 or 4 flat sides if using bell peppers). Lightly coat them in olive oil and arrange them skin-side up on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Add almonds to one side of the baking sheet (they’ll come out before the peppers do). Place on the top rack of the oven.
  • Cut the onions into quarters (or half 4 small onions, or cut a big one into 8 pieces). Cut the cauliflower into large florets. Arrange them on a different baking sheet lined with baking paper. Spray, or otherwise coat, them in olive oil. Bake in the middle of the oven until they start to char.
  • Once the almonds smell really nice and start to change colour, take them out.
  • Start boiling the buckwheat in cold water.
  • For the Romesco sauce, roughly chop the garlic and place it into a bowl along with olive oil (30g), red wine vinegar, Chipotle powder and salt.
  • Once the pepper skins start to char, take them out of the oven and add them to the bowl. Add roughly chopped almonds and handblender everything into a sauce.
  • To serve, heap the buckwheat on one side of the plate and cover the other side in sauce. Place cauliflower and onions on top.