Winter vegetable salad, chervil and horseradish dressing

Serves: 4
Course: Side
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Ingredients
  • 1 lg kohlrabi
  • A handfull of cavolo nero or baby spinach
  • 1 head of fennel
  • 1 red apple
  • For the chervil, horseradish dressing
  • 150mls apple juice
  • 80mls rapeseed oil
  • 50g chervil
  • 1 tbsp horseradish cream
  • 2cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
  • Salt and black pepper
  • Some salted almonds to serve
  1. Peel and very thinly slice the kohlrabi. A mandolin is perfect for this if you have one.
  2. Wash and remove the stalks from the cavolo nero and tear into pieces.
  3. Trim the fennel and very thinly slice.
  4. Core the apple, halve it and thinly slice.
  5. Put all the vegetables and apple into a bowl.
  6. Blend the ingredients for the dressing, add to the bowl, then turn everything together.
  7. Serve in bowls or on a platter with some salted almonds scattered over the top.
Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford