Outdoor Cooking-Lamb Chop with Roast Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad

feta cheese

🥗Healthier: goat cheese

💰Cheaper: cottage cheese

Cottage cheese offers a lower-cost option with a similar texture.

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Sunflower seeds are often less expensive and provide a similar crunch.

Start by preparing the sweet potato quinoa salad.

Peel and cube the sweet potatoes.

Dice garlic and shallot into small pieces.

Drizzle a little olive oil over the sweet potatoes and mix with salt and pepper.

Add thyme, cinnamon, and rosemary to the sweet potatoes.

Spread sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and roast until tender.

Prepare hazelnut pesto by blending hazelnuts, nutritional yeast, cilantro, Thai basil, and garlic in a food processor.

Add olive oil to the pesto mixture and blend until smooth.

Marinate lamb chops in the hazelnut pesto overnight in a Ziploc bag.

Heat oil in a skillet until shimmering and add lamb chops.

Cook lamb chops for 3-4 minutes per side until nicely seared.

Set lamb chops aside and plate up the quinoa salad.

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