Name: Poppy Seed Coin Salad
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 200 g radishes (if you are lucky enough to find a selection of these, bravo!); 200 g carrots (jewelled carrots make for great coins!); squeeze of lemon; flaked sea salt and black pepper to taste; 1 tsp English mustard; 1 tbsp poppy seeds; 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice + ½ lemon for a finishing squeeze; 5 tbsp olive oil; 100 g courgettes (or kohlrabi or daikon); 3 tsp sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Set a Table

By Karen Dudley

Published 2018

About

On leaving a mall I sometimes slip a large note into the parking ticket machine just to harvest that life-affirming clatter of coins! People think I’m crazy when I pretend that I’ve won at a slot machine, but the fistful of coins is later dispersed to parking guards all around the city. For a while, cutting vegetables on the diagonal has been de rigeur but now… coins! They are the jackpot in this salad!