Roasted Broccoli Avocado Salad

                      Roasted Broccoli Avocado Salad    

A very nutritious and tasty salad, you would like to fix often for your lunches. It is a complete meal and low in calories, weight watchers delight!

 Hot summer days are associated with salads and this roasted Broccoli is highly nutritious and flavor packed salad. Broccoli is a very good source of vitamin C which is needed to build immunity among hundreds of other benefits. So, let's start.

 Ingredients:

1. Broccoli florets-1 cup
2. Avocado slice- 1 cup
3. Cherry Tomatoes-1/4 cup
4. Red grapes-1/4 cup
5. Mango - 1 slice finely chopped
6. Almonds-6-7
7. Walnuts-2-3
8. Cashews-7-8
9. Olive oil-1 tbsp.
10. Sesame oil-1 tsp.
11. Garlic cloves-4
12. Crushed red pepper or chilli flakes-1 tsp.
13. Salt
14. Lime or lemon-1

Procedure:  

• Wash and cut the florets in equal size.
• Roast the nuts on medium low flame for about 5 minutes, chop them.
• Preheat oven on 375 F.
• Line the baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
• In a mixing bowl, mix broccoli  with oil, crushed pepper, salt. 
  
• Bake for approx 20 minutes or till the florets are a little crisp, not overdone.
• Transfer into the mixing bowl, add sliced Avocado, grapes and cherry tomatoes cut into halves, lemon juice, chopped mango, roasted nuts and serve right now, or you can serve it on room temperature or even cold.

Note- You can make it with just Broccoli florets and Avocados, adding of fruit is just optional. You can skip this or add any fruit of your choice like Blueberries, Strawberries, Pomegranate.