Cauliflower, Apple, Date & Rocket Salad

Name: Cauliflower, Apple, Date & Rocket Salad
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: ½ cup olive oil; ¼ cup tahini; squeeze of lemon juice (optional); salt and black pepper to taste; salt and black pepper to taste; 200 g rocket; 180 g whole almonds, toasted; 1 cup dates, sliced; salt and white pepper to taste; salt and white pepper to taste; 1 clove garlic, crushed; 1½ tbsp nigella seeds (black onion seeds); 1½ tbsp nigella seeds (black onion seeds); juice of 1 lemon; ⅓ cup cloudy apple juice; 2 medium cauliflowers; 3 medium Granny Smith apples

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Set a Table

By Karen Dudley

Published 2018

About

My thanks go to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for this inspired salad. Interestingly the rocket is the key to its success! It is a surprisingly good accompaniment to most meat and chicken dishes.

Ingredients

2 medium cauliflowers
3 medium Granny Smith apples
1 cup dates, sliced

Starter
Vegan

Method

To make the dressing, whisk together the tahini, olive oil, apple juice and lemon juice until smooth and creamy. Stir in most of the nigella seeds and the crushed garlic and season with salt and white pepper. Set aside.

Cut the cauliflower into very small pieces, about 2 cm, and very finely