Chicken and Roast Vegetable Salad

Ingredients:

• 6 small beets trimmed

• 1/3 cup plus 4 teaspoons olive oil

• 6 small red potatoes 

• 2 zucchini 

• 4 medium carrots

• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

• 2 cups shredded cooked chicken such as rotisserie chicken

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 200°C

2. Peel beets and cut into 3/4-inch wedges. In a bowl toss beets with 1 teaspoon oil to coat and in one end of a shallow baking pan spread in one layer.

3. Cut potatoes into 3/4-inch-thick slices. In another bowl toss potatoes with 1 teaspoon oil to coat and at other end of baking pan spread in one layer, making sure that potatoes do not touch beets (beets will bleed).

4. Cut zucchini diagonally into 1/2-inch-thick slices and cut slices lengthwise into 1/2-inch-wide sticks. In a bowl toss zucchini with 1 teaspoon oil to coat and in one end of another shallow baking pan spread in one layer.

5. Cut carrots diagonally into 1/3-inch-thick slices. In a bowl toss carrots with 1 teaspoon oil to coat and at the other end of second baking pan spread in one layer.

6. In a small bowl whisk together lemon juice, remaining 1/3 cup oil, and salt to taste.

7. Bake vegetables in oven 5 minutes, or until zucchini is just tender, and transfer zucchini to a shallow bowl. Bake remaining vegetables, testing them every 5 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes more, or until tender, and transfer as cooked to separate shallow bowls.

8. Stir dressing and spoon about 1 tablespoon over each vegetable, tossing to coat. In a bowl toss chicken with remaining dressing.

9. Arrange vegetables and salad greens on a platter and mound chicken in middle. Alternatively, vegetables, chicken, and dressing may be tossed together, but beets will bleed. Serve salad at room temperature.