Hello sweeties,
Happy 2016 to you all! I hope you feasted well yesterday! I was ill but even I did! 🙂 Yesterday, I made a lovely side dish & the leftovers, I ate as a nice cold lunch today. This was my tasty vegan lunch, check it all out:
So, how did I make this lovely side dish & what lovely spice did I use? I roasted my 3 different cut up peeled veggies with mainly mixed spice, a fruity olive oil, some black pepper & pink salt. That is it! Easy, right? Now, you are wondering:
What is mixed spice?
Mixed spice, also called pudding spice, is a British blend of sweet spices, similar to pumpkin pie spice used in the United States. Cinnamon is the dominant flavour, with mostly nutmeg and allspice. It is often used in baking or to complement fruits or other sweet foods. In my spice mix was a combo of 4 ingredients: cinnamon, ginger, pimento & ground cloves.
The term “mixed spice” has been used for this blend of spices in cookbooks at least as far back as 1828 and even much earlier.
Mixed spice is very similar to a Dutch spice mix called koek kruiden or speculaas kruiden, which are used mainly to spice food associated with the Dutch Sinterklaas celebration at December 5 & in Belgium, at december the 6th!
Recipe: As a lovely side dish, enough for 3 hungry persons
Ingredients:
about 30 Brussels sprouts, all sizes, cleaned, bottom cut away & each one sliced vertically
5 carrots, peeled & each one cut up into bigger pieces & then sliced again
1 smaller butternut pumpkin, peeled, threads & seeds removed, cut up into bite-sized chunks
mixed spice: 2 to 3 teaspoons or a bit more to your liking! ( koek kruiden in Dutch)
some black pepper: 15 grins
pink salt in a grinder: 8 grins
a fruity extra virgin olive oil
Method:
- Preheat your oven to 200°C ( 400 F ) for 10 minutes. take 2 non-stick oven roasting tins & place all of your cut up veggies, in 1 layer in it. Divide the veggies between the 2 roasting tins. Now, scatter your 15 grins of black pepper all over the veggies & also your grinned pink salt. Scatter your mixed spice all over the veggies. While you do that, your kitchen will smell amazing!!! Finally, drizzle a good olive oil all over your veggies, but not too much,…about 2 tablespoons of oil should do it. With clean hands, mingle everything together. See that every piece of veggie is coated with the mixed spice, black pepper, salt & olive oil. Place the 2 trays into the hot oven & let the veggies roast for about 20-25 minutes. In half of the roasting time, take oven trays out of the oven, turn veggies over to prevent burning & for an equal roast. Lower your heat if you need to because we don’t want to burn the sprouts! 😉
- I served my roasted veggies with cooked brown rice & I fried some fresh-cut up garlic & 1 white peeled onion with it. Seasoned it all with black pepper & some pink salt. Yummy! We served that with a lovely baked cordon bleu. The next day, that is today, I ate the veggie leftovers cold, straight from the fridge! The mixed spice oven roasted veggies were still so inviting & aromatic! Enjoy! 🙂♥ Stay Tuned & subscribe by email! Join 1,800 email subscribers now!!! It is free!!!! Click the link here below to subscribe!!!
Happy New Year, Sophie! 🙂
Thanks so much, dear Adrian! xxx
Lovely!!! A great start to 2016 🙂
Thank you, sweet Elaine! 👍🏻 I know that you love your veggies!
Healthy and Happy New Year Sophie.
Well, Thank you, sweet Norma! Happy gardening too! 👍🏻
Yum and I hope you are feeling better! Happy New Year!!!
Hey Susan, I am feeling better but still had some fever today. 😕
Oh dear! I hope things go better tomorrow😘😘😘
I am better , no fever, but still not really okay! 🙂 xxx
Things are looking up! Get lots of rest!
xxx
Ooo Sophie… I could probably make that here in my sisters house! Yumyum thank you! Hope you’re feeling better now. Happy New Year. x x x
You are welcome, my dear friend! Inam still ill but only had fever 1x this day.
Hopefully you’re all better now Sophie 🙂 x x x
Yes, since 2 days no fever anymore! I am getting better every day!n thanks! x
Happy new year!
Thanks so much, Nell!
This dish looks delightful. I like foods that work well both when first made and as left-overs.
Me too, dear Sheryl! 🙂
Great recipe Sophie–when we’re al trying to eat a little healthier in the New Year! thanks. xo
Do we know??? Ha! 🙂
Looking forward to a year of recipes ahead from you Sophie!
I’m sorry to hear you weren’t well over the new year. I have heard of mixed spice and use it often. Best wishes to you for a fabulous 2016 xx
The same to you, sweet Charlie! xxx
Hope you’re feeling better! Those roasted veggies look like the perfect comfort food.
they really are! Xxx
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Sophie! I got your lovely Christmas card- thank you!! I hope you have received mine, too!
It’s too bad that you were ill, but good thing you were still able to enjoy a great feast! I’ve not heard of this pudding spice before but it sounds like a great combination of flavours!
So excited to see what 2016 has in store for you!! xoxoxo
When did you get it? I left you an email on your blog when I got it! xx Thanks so much, sweet Koko! I loved your cool card too! xxx
Sorry that you were not well, I hope you are feeling better now. It is terrible to be sick during the holidays. Your veggies sound delicious…thanks for the explanation about the spice mix. Wishing you all the best in this new year.
Thanks so much, sweet Karen! xxx I am better now!
Leftovers are the best! Way to spice it up and make it fresh all over it again. 🙂
I think so too! 🙂 x
Totally love those roasted veggies. Going to make some roasted cauliflowers and sweet potatoes for the lunch tomorrow.
Yum yum too, dear Angie! xxx
Perfect comfort food. Yummy. Happy new year 🙂
Thanks so much, dear Sophie! xxx
Lovely tasty dish! I love it too! 😉 Happy 2016 to you! xxx
Thanks, sweeties! xxx
Yum it looks! Gonna try today !!! 🙂
yayyy! Enjoy! 🙂