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Balsamic Cucumber & Kohlrabi Salad

Cooling cucumber & kohlrabi, chives & seasonal greens with balsamic ~ add & swap ingredients according to what’s in season & in your fridge!

  • Serves4
  • Cooks in 0
  • Prep time 10 mins
  • Grain Free Oil Free
  • Edible Flowers
  • High Fibre

    High fibre foods are an important part of a healthy digestive system. Whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds are high in fibre.

  • Anti Oxidants

    Anti-oxidant are phytonutrients that can help slow & prevent cellular damage from free radicals that can cause disease. Many plants contain anti-oxidants.

  • Cooling

Ingredients

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  • 8 cups salad greens*
  • 1 cucumber - thinly sliced
  • 1 kohlrabi - peel + thinly sliced
  • ½ cup chives - sliced
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar | glaze
  • 4 chives flowers - optional
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Method

 

Balsamic Cucumber & Kohlrabi Salad with Chives

 

WASH all your salad greens – a salad spinner is an excellent bit of a kitchen kit!

 

THINLY slice cucumber on a diagonal. Peel & slice kohlrabi julienne | matchstick. Slice chives.

 

TOSS salad ingredients together, drizzle with balsamic glaze or balsamic vinegar & garnish with chive flower petals.

 

STORE salad un-dressing in the fridge in a glass container with a lid. 

 

 

Serving Ideas & Dressings
with a splash of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
Oil-free Mustard Garlic Vinaigrette
Oil-free Orange Vinaigrette 
Chive & Thyme Herbal Dressing
Asian Style Dressing
Smokey Tahini Sauce
Orange Cider Vinaigrette 
Lemony Dijon, Mustard Salad Dressing
Dill Tahini Sauce
Simple Lemon Vinaigrette 

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*SALAD GREENS = arugula, mizuna, lettuces, crispy baby lettuces, baby spinach, baby kale, pea shoots, micro-greens, beet greens, hakurei turnip greens, young beet greens, sorrel, celery leaves, baby chard, cress.

 

ADD HERBS – fresh chives, chervil, parsley, dill, garlic scapes, garlic chives, basil.

 

EDIBLE FLOWERS – violets, dandelion, clover, wood sorrel, redbud, ground ivy, forsythia, chives, thyme, savoy, chickweed, sorrel, all the culinary herbs, daylilies, garlic chives, garlic, leeks, onions, squash, nasturtiums, marigolds, calendula.

 

ADD any leafy salad greens, radishes, red cabbage, radicchio, hakurei salad turnips, kohlrabi, celery, fennel, endive, frisee, carrots, peppers, summer squash, zucchini, tomatoes, avocados, herbs, nuts and seeds

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