Winter Salad
Toi-Ohomai Institute of Technology, Rotorua Campus Winter Salad. Baby spinach and shaved green cabbage salad with tomato wedges, cucumber, toasted walnuts and finished with Italian parsley dressing.
Ingredients
Salad
- 100 g baby spinach
- 100 g green cabbage
- 2 each tomatoes
- 2 each Telegraph cucumber
- 80 g walnut halves
Italian parsley dressing
- 1 clove fresh garlic
- 1/4 each brown onion
- 120 g Italian parsley
- 100 ml white vinegar
- 1/2 lemon freshly squeezed juice
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 fresh small egg
- 500 ml vegetable oil
- Salt and pepper
Preparation
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1Shave green cabbage with a mandolin.
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2Mix it with baby spinach.
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3Cut tomatoes into wedges.
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4Mark and slice cucumber diagonally.
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5Toast walnut halves in medium hot pan.
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6Italian parsley dressing
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7Peel garlic and brown onion.
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8Roughly chop, then mix with Italian herbs, white vinegar, lemon juice, honey and egg.
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9Place mixture into a stainless-steel jug.
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10Using a hand mixer, blitz until combined then, gradually add vegetable oil.
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11Adjust seasoning.
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12To plate: Arrange tomato wedges and sliced cucumber on salad plate.
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13Layer on baby spinach and shaved green cabbage.
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14Sprinkle toasted walnuts over salad.
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15Dress salad with Italian parsley dressing, just before serving.