Roasted Vegetables with Sweet Potato Biscuit

I made this for Katie when she came on Thursday. She realy liked it so Carly and I made it again today. I had mine half gone when I remembred to take a picture.

Ingredients:

• 1 onion, diced
• 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 fennel, peeled and diced
• 4 carrots peeled and diced
• 2 turnips, peeled and diced
• 3 parsnips, peeled and diced
• 2 apples, don't peel but do dice
• 1celery root, peeled and diced or 3 stalks celery, diced

Use any root vegetables you like. But do try some new ones that you have not used before.

Directions:

1. Mix all of the chopped vegetables together in a plastic bag.
2. Add pepper to taste
3. Add a pinch of salt.
4. add 1-2 Tablespoons of oil.
5. Shake the bag well .
6. Put  vegetables single layer on parchement lined paper.
7. Roast 400 degrees for about 40 minutes or until tender.

Sweet Potato Biscuit.

• Roast the sweet potato at the same time that you roast the vegetables, in a 400 degree oven. (Put the potato on parchment paper so the oven does not get dirty.) Bake until sweet potato is soft and beginning to ooze syrup.
• Remove from the oven and let cool. When sweet potato is cool, peel and measure 1/2 cup and set aside.
• In a food processor put the following:
• 1 3/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 teaspoon fresh, chopped rosemary leaves
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 tespoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt-I used 3/4 teaspoon.
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper.
• Mix well.

Add:

1. 1 tablespoon honey or agave nectar
2. *1/3 cup buttermilk
3. *7 tablespoons cold Earth Balance Add sweet potato.
4. Continue mixing until a ball forms.
5. Remove from food processor.
6. Put on lightluy flowered surface and pat into 1/4 " thickness.
7. But roasted veggies in a sprayed ramekins, or in a sprayed pie plate. Cover with strips of biscuit leaving a small space in between.
8. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes or until biscuits are baked and veggies hot.

Comments from Verna's Test Kitchen:

1. To make the buttermilk, I used soy unflavored milk and added 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Leave set for a few minutes to curdle before using.
2. My granddaughtrer Carly was here and she suggested using unsweetened applesauce in place of the Earth Balance. It worked fine but did not raise quite as high as the buttered dough. She also used 1/2 Earth Balance and 1/2 avacados when she made it the next day. That worked really well.
3. By doing this it saved on lots of calories. 

Enjoy!!