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Recipe: Fresh Fennel and Lemon Slaw

2009_02_18-Salad.jpgI don't stop eating salad just because it's winter. In fact, I look forward to winter salads. No wilting, delicate lettuces here; no tender baby vegetables to be coddled with understated vinaigrettes. Winter salads are bold, crunchy and definitive, with dressings to match. Zesty citrus vingars, strong nut oils, old-fashioned olive oils -- they all come out to play in my winter salads, along with the robust crunch of cabbage, fennel, and bitter greens.

 
 

Take this salad, for instance. It's a riff on any number of winter salads here at The Kitchn (you can see 11 more winter salads here), but it has a slight bent all its own. I used some Meyer lemons for their zest and juice, working their herbal flavor infuse the vegetables and the dressing.

2009_02_18-Salad02.jpgFresh Fennel and Lemon Slaw
serves 6, at least

1 large bulb fennel
1/2 head green cabbage
1 head red radicchio
2 lemons (preferably Meyer lemon)
3 tablespoons orange juice
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
1/3 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper

Finely chop the fronds of the fennel bulb. Thinly slice the stalks and bulb with a mandoline (or finely chop with a chef's knife). Do the same with the cabbage and radicchio, and toss all the vegetables together. Zest the Meyer lemons and toss with the vegetables. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Whisk the dressing ingredients together, taste, and adjust. Toss with salad and refrigerate for an hour before serving.

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Salad, Vegetable, Healthy, Vegetarian, Winter, Keeps Well, Vegan, Easy, coleslaw, slaw

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all of that veg came in our farm box! Sweet!


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posted by EmmieB on February 18th 2009 at 3:15pm
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I've been meaning to make something with fennel. This might be it.

posted by Kalinda on February 18th 2009 at 3:18pm
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Thank you for posting this--it's cheering up my gray Boston work day. All I want to eat in the winter is raw fennel and cabbage with lemony vinegary dressing, and it reminds me of _A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_, when Francie has her "pickle days"--

--"When they had just bread and potatoes too many times at home, Francie's thoughts went to dripping sour pickles. She didn't know why, but after a day of the pickle, the bread and potatoes tasted good again." Thank you for recognizing that there's more to winter food than stews!

posted by lasomnambule on February 18th 2009 at 3:20pm
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for the longest time I thought I did not like fennel. Then I was testing a recipe for fennel and tomato salad and realized that fennel is not all that bad :)

posted by orchidgirl1979 on February 18th 2009 at 5:00pm
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Made it for dinner tonight, very refreshing! Thanks for the recipe.

posted by wesaturtle on February 18th 2009 at 10:38pm
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