Times and again, I come home with a bunch of items I've never heard of or seen before. This week, the aliens in the shopping bag include a festival squash and a kohlrabi. So one afternoon, I find myself searching for kohlrabi in the web, and discovering that it's a mild-tasting turnip. And then, here comes my salad. I like salads very much because of the fullness it gives to the stomach without any weighty feeling. In general, the more ingredients there are, usually the better the salad tastes. For a good salad composition, I like to use mild, crispy, and even bland items as the main ingredients. Kohlrabi turns out to be one such material. Cucumber, snow pea, red pepper and chickpea are great too. Ingredients with strong flavors and distinctive textures are used in sparing quantities, so that they heighten the excitement of the senses. In this salad, the apple, peanut, onion and ham used for this purpose. The dressing is a mix of spiciness in the dijon mustard and with the sweet flavor of hoisin sauce. The roasted sesame gives an extra aroma, which along with the peanuts and hoisin sauce, reminds me of rojak. Festival squash has a nice color and a sweet taste, but it's hard to munch. So I use only a small quantity for its color.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup kohlrabi, very thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup cucumber, very thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup snow peas, halved
- 1/3 cup red pepper, cut to 1" strips
- 2 tablespoons (TB) apple, cut to 1/2" small pieces
- 1 tablespoon (TB) cooked chickpeas
- 1 TB festival squash, cut to 1/4" small pieces (else it's hard to munch)
- 1 teaspoon (tp) peanuts
- 1 tp onion, finely chopped
- 2 tp chopped ham
Dressing
- 1 tp dijon mustard
- 1 tp hoisin sauce
- 2 tp lemon juice
- 1 tp red wine vinegar
- 2 tp roasted sesame
Procedure:
Mix all salad ingredients and place in a salad bowl. Mix dijon mustard with hoisin sauce in a small sauser. Then thin the mixture with lemon juice and vinegar. When dressing is done, sprinkle sesame and mix. Serve at once.
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