Red Quinoa, Radicchio, and Baked Vegetables

Ingredients:

- red quinoa

- radicchio

- season vegetables (I used eggplant, pumpkin, red pepper, leek, zucchini, fresh ginger)

- fresh sage leaves

- olive oil

- salt

- curry powder (optional)

- any other spices you may like: chilli, turmeric

Prepare the quinoa following the instructions on the packet. Red quinoa is very tasty, so depending on your taste you can add a little salt if you like. A drop of olive oil is always good. Once cooked, you can give the quinoa a nice shape by putting it into a small bowl and then tipping it onto a plate (if you do want to do this, the quinoa is the first thing you have to put on the plate...).

Prepare the vegetables into chunky chunks, preheat oven to 180C. In the meantime, place the sage leaves into a blender with some salt and whatever spice tickles your fancy, and olive oil. Make it quite runny so that you can mix the vegetables with it in a bowl, and then place them in the oven dish for baking. You can also add other herbs to this if you like, such a as rosemary, origano, parsley. I'm not sure how long the vegetables took to cook....you can tell by looking at them!

In a separate dish, place the radicchio which you will have washed and cut into four. Simply place in the oven with a little olive oil and top. They don't take long to cook, so just keep an eye on them.

Enjoy!

Post Scriptum: there is another green preparation on the plate in the photo: I won't put the recipe for that because I added burnt sesame seeds.....eeewh.....a flop!