Kohlrabi salad

Kohlrabi is a weird vegetable. We don’t like saying it but it is. It is a cabbage with a swollen stem that looks like a bumpy green or purple apple and with a texture and flavour not dissimilar to a radish or cabbage heart. It is weird because of its look — it is like an alien vegetable, with a round, squat base from which straight leafy stems spew out haphazardly — and because people in the West, Germany excepted, have no clue what to do with it. Perhaps because of its oddity and eccentric