Christmas Vegetables with Cranberries
Ingredients
Serves 8
- 275g (10oz) tofu – cubed
- 100g (3.5o) dried cranberries
- 500g (1lb 2oz) parsnips
- 500g (1lb 2oz) carrots
- 500g (1lb 2oz) sweet potatoes
- 500g (1lb 2oz) new potatoes
- 500g (1lb 2oz) bay onions
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Couscous
For the tofu marinade
- 6 tbsp tamari
- 1 tbsp brandy
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tsp tabasco sauce
For the vegetable marinade
- 1 tbsp tamari
- ½ orange – juice only
- 1 tbsp coriander – chopped
- 1 tbsp brandy
- 1 garlic clove – crushed
How To Make
- Mix the ingredients for the tofu marinade and with 6 tablespoons of water. Add the tofu and leave for one hour.
- Mix the ingredients for the vegetable marinade and with 100ml water and add salt and pepper to taste. Add the cranberries and leave to soak.
- Preheat the oven to 220°C / 425°F / gas mark 7.
- Peel the parsnips, carrots and sweet potatoes and cut into 1cm diagonal slices. Halve or quarter the new potatoes.
- Blanch the parsnips and carrots in boiling water for 45 seconds. Drain, refresh and drain well.
- Strain the cranberries and set aside, reserving the marinade.
- Put the parsnips, carrots and baby onions into a casserole dish, pour over half the vegetable marinade and cover tightly with a fitting lid and bake for about 40 minutes.
- Put the potatoes and sweet potatoes on a roasting tray with 1 tablespoon olive oil and the remaining marinade and roast for 20 minutes.
- Drain the tofu, reserving the marinade and roast in the oven for 20 minutes, basting and turning every 5 minutes.
- Transfer the parsnips, carrots and onion to the roasting tray with the potatoes and roast all together for a further 20 minutes.
- Towards the end of the roasting time, prepare the couscous.
- Add the cranberries to the vegetables for the last 5 minutes of the roasting time.
- Pile the tofu on top of the roasted vegetables and serve hot with the couscous.
