A Winter Herb Salad

Name: A Winter Herb Salad
Yield: To Perk Up A Lunch for 4
Ingredients: 1 fat head of curly kale or cavolo nero; ½ tsp caraway seeds; ½ tsp fennel seeds; 75 g/2¾ oz/⅔ cup pumpkin seeds; 1 nice apple, cored; 2 tbsp pure olive oil; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 medium carrots, peeled; 50 g/1¾ oz.smoked cheese, diced; 1 very big handful of mixed fresh winter herbs: your choice of parsley, chervil, coriander (cilantro), sorrel and dill, roughly chopped; 4tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 1tbsp pomegranate molasses; 1tbsp cider (or apple) vinegar; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Carrot and Crispy Kale

Preparation info

To Perk Up A Lunch for
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

Gaia, Demeter, Ceres (whatever your pet name for Mother Earth) is really quite a clever divine entity. She sends fruit to cool the febrile in summer and veg to soothe the flu-ridden in winter. And even when the fields are apparently barren and there is frost on the ground, she sends us stuff to use for salads. It may not be the pert lettuces and juicy tomatoes of summer, but it is still saladable.

If you have a herb patch, frankly there is no excuse for it to lie fallow at any time.