Kohlrabi is one of the most unusual varieties of cabbage. Outwardly and in consistency, it resembles a turnip. Crispy flesh has a pleasant taste, with sweet-mustard notes. Kohlrabi’s vitamin-mineral composition makes this vegetable one of the most beneficial. Most of the valuable substances contained in this type of cabbage, is stored after heat treatment. The exception is vitamin C, which is more in kohlrabi than in lemons. This makes it more useful fresh. Kohlrabi salads are juicy and healthy. Possessing a low calorie content, they saturate well, since the main ingredient contains a lot of fiber.
Cooking Features
Kohlrabi cabbage has been cultivated for a long time, but it is perceived by many of our compatriots as an exotic vegetable. They need to know a few things that will help make a truly delicious kohlrabi salad.
- For a salad, you should not take a large-sized kohlrabi - in such vegetables there are large and coarse fibers. Large copies are suitable for soup or stew, but not for cold appetizers.
- Before adding kohlrabi to a salad, wash and clean it thoroughly.
- Grind kohlrabi for salad should be carefully. Most often, it is rubbed on a conventional grater with large holes or grated, intended for the preparation of Korean salads. Sometimes it takes a larger cut - straws or even thin plates. The kohlrabi has a harsh taste, it will make the taste of the snack rough.
- Vinegar will help make kohlrabi softer if you sprinkle chopped cabbage with a small amount of it. Often, vinegar is part of the salad dressing for a kohlrabi snack.
- If you cut kohlrabi cabbage into chunks and dip it in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, it will taste much more tender, but slightly less useful.
- Salting snacks that include kohlrabi is undesirable. If a salad without salt seems to you tasteless, add some salt to it just before serving. Otherwise, the vegetables will make juice, the salad will turn out watery. Kohlrabi salads are also recommended to be served shortly before serving.
Recipes for kohlrabi salads may include a similar set of ingredients, but even minor changes in the composition, using another dressing, significantly affect the taste of the finished dish.
Kohlrabi, cucumber and radish salad
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0, 3 kg;
- radishes - 100 g;
- cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- green onions - 50 g;
- fresh parsley - 50 g;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Clean, wash kohlrabi. Cut into strips.
- Wash the cucumber, pat dry with a napkin. Cut into strips, mix with kohlrabi.
- Wash the radish, cut the “tails”. Scrape straws, combine with other vegetables.
- Wash the green onions and parsley, spread them out on a cloth towel, so that they are more likely to dry. Finely chop, put in a container with other ingredients.
- In a separate container, squeeze the juice from half a lemon, mix it with vegetable oil. Add pepper and salt.
- Season the salad before serving.
Such a salad is pleasant to eat at any time of the year, but it is especially in demand in spring, when the body “missed” fresh vitamins, and the soul is waiting for summer.
Kohlrabi Salad with Sausage
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0.5 kg;
- smoked sausage - 0, 25 kg;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- green onions - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Free the sausage from the film, cut into small bricks, fold into a bowl.
- Drain cleaned and washed cabbage with a napkin. Cut it into strips. Add to sausage.
- Finely chop the green onions, add to the main ingredients.
- Fill with sour cream, put in a salad bowl.
- Coarsely rub the cheese, sprinkle them snack.
This salad is very simple to prepare, contains a minimum of ingredients, but it turns out very tasty.
Kohlrabi salad with cucumbers and eggs
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- fresh greens, salt, pepper, sour cream - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Eggs boiled hard boiled. Put under a stream of cold water, wait until cool. If the eggs are not allowed to cool before mixing with other ingredients, the appetizer will quickly deteriorate.
- Peel the eggshell off the eggs, finely chop them with a knife, put them in a bowl.
- Wash cucumbers, blot with a napkin. Cut off the tips. Cut into small cubes, shift to the eggs.
- Wash, dry with a napkin, clean the kohlrabi. Grind on a coarse grater, add to other products.
- Pour the finely chopped greens into the food bowl.
- Season with sour cream, salt and pepper to taste.
This unpretentious-looking salad has a harmonious taste that almost everyone likes.
Kohlrabi salad with apple and cheese
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0, 3 kg;
- apple - 0, 2 kg;
- red onion - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- Dijon mustard - 5 ml;
- honey - 5 ml;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- apple cider vinegar (6 percent) - 10 ml;
- olive oil - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the apple, cut the core out of it. Cut the flesh into small pieces, mix with lemon juice, put in a bowl.
- Peel onions, cut into thin quarters of rings, add to apples.
- Kohlrabi cut into straws, combine with apples and onions.
- Rub the cheese on a grater with large holes to make chips that look like chips. Add to the rest of the ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, combine honey, mustard, vinegar, melted to a liquid state, and vegetable oil. Whisk with a whisk to make a homogeneous sauce, fill them with snacks.
Salad made according to this recipe has an indescribable sweet spicy taste. Its worth a try for everyone.
Kohlrabi salad with chicken and pickles
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0, 2 kg;
- boiled chicken fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- pickles - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boiled chicken fillet cut into strips. Put in a bowl.
- Onion, peeled, cut into thin half rings. Pour boiling water to remove excess bitterness, wring out. Put to chicken.
- Pepper free from seeds by removing the stalk. Cut into thin quarters of rings, add to other ingredients.
- Cut pickled cucumbers into strips, send to other products.
- Kohlrabi cut into the same pieces as cucumbers, combine with the rest of the components.
- Season salad with mayonnaise.
An appetizer made according to this recipe has a savory taste. Spicy food lovers can add a little chili pepper to it.
Kohlrabi salad with carrots and garlic
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0, 4 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- cucumber - 150 g;
- sweet pepper - 150 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- apple cider vinegar (6%) - 20 ml;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- soy sauce, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash, dry and peel vegetables.
- Pepper cut into thin strips.
- Grate cabbage, carrots and cucumber for Korean salads. If there is no such grater in the house, vegetables can be cut into small strips.
- Combine vegetables, mix.
- Finely chop the garlic with a knife, sprinkle over the vegetables, stir.
- Mix the liquid ingredients, season the salad.
Appetizer made according to this recipe will appeal to lovers of Asian cuisine.
Kohlrabi salad with pickled cucumbers
Composition:
- kohlrabi - 0, 2 kg;
- pickled gherkins - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- sour cream - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cucumbers cut into small circles.
- Kohlrabi chop on a coarse grater.
- Skip garlic through a press, mix with sour cream.
- Season the salad with the cooked sauce.
The savory taste of this salad makes it popular at the holiday table - many consider it a good snack for vodka.
How to decorate kohlrabi salad
The taste of kohlrabi salad is unlikely to leave you indifferent, but externally similar snacks look modest and not presentable. If you are used to serving dishes on the table beautifully decorated or preparing a snack for the holiday, you need to figure out how to decorate it. You can offer several options for aesthetic serving of kohlrabi salad:
- If you put the appetizer on lettuce leaves, decorate it with sprigs of fresh greens, it will immediately become much more elegant.
- Kohlrabi salad will look bright and elegant if you sprinkle it with berries. Well suited cranberries, lingonberries, currants. Such addition will also have a positive effect on the taste of the dish.
- Sesame seeds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, pine nuts, and similar products will help to make a kohlrabi snack more noble. Salad is sprinkled with them before serving. Cheese chips will also cope with this task.
- Flowers from vegetables will make kohlrabi salad a table decoration.
When serving in batches, it is recommended to lay the salad in beautiful vases or creamers.
Kohlrabi salads are healthy and tasty. The process of their preparation is not very difficult. It is reasonable to include these snacks in the daily diet. On the holiday table, they too will look decent, if you take care of their elegant decoration.
