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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 4 portions
Author Ana Coito, PhD

Ingredients

  • 1 medium eggplant
  • 1 medium zucchini
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 250 g mushrooms
  • 400 g tempeh
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • Thyme to taste*
  • Oregano to taste*
  • Basil to taste*
  • Black pepper to taste
  • Sea or Himalayan salt to taste
  • 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • Optional: white almond butter (i.e., without the skin)
  • 1 kg sweet potatoes

Instructions

  1. Wash and cut the vegetables (except sweet potatoes), mushrooms and tempeh in cubes and place them in a big bowl.
  2. Prepare the marinade by mixing the garlic, lemon juice, herbs and salt together and then blend everything together (for example, using a hand blender).
  3. Add the sauce to the vegetables and mix them well so that it is well distributed.
  4. Marinate the vegetables for about 2h (or longer if you can) in the fridge.**
  5. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
  6. Place the vegetables in a baking tray and place it in the oven.
  7. Bake them at 170°C for 40min-1h.
  8. Wash the sweet potatoes and place them whole in the oven. Bake for about 40min-1h (depending how big your sweet potatoes are).***
  9. When both the sweet potatoes and the vegetable mixture are baked, take them out of the oven and add olive oil to the vegetable mixture.****
  10. Optional: if you want, you can also add more fresh herbs after baking.
  11. Cut the sweet potatoes in slices.

  12. Optional: you can add a little bit of almond butter on the sweet potatoes.

Recipe Notes

*I use fresh herbs whenever possible (season).

**If you don’t have time, it is also ok to bake the vegetables right away after adding the sauce. The marinade time will give them an “extra touch” but if you cannot wait, don’t worry, just place them directly in the oven.

*** If you prefer, you could instead cut the sweet potatoes in cubes and add to the rest of the vegetable mixture.

****I always add the oil at the end in order to avoid destroying the healthy fats in it (which may be turned to unhealthy fats, e.g. trans-fats, after heating).