‘Grate Stuff’ Salad Recipe …and a Competition!

I don’t know why, but I’d far prefer to make a salad by grating the ingredients than chopping them. I can’t explain it – it’s no less work! I make seasonal variations of this one all the time and had never thought of adding it to the website, until last weekend’s workshop when someone asked for more recipes that don’t require fancy-pants equipment. This definitely fits the bill – all you need is a chopping board, knife and grater or microplane (oh hang on – that’s in the fancy-pants category).  Here’s the late summer/early autumn version.

‘Grate Stuff’ Salad

1 large or 2 small zucchini or scallopini (preferably different colours), grated

1 carrot, grated

1 cup red grapes, halved

Large handfuls of herbs (mint and coriander are delicious), roughly chopped

2 tablespoons oil (flaxseed/olive)

1/2 a lemon, zested and juiced

1 clove garlic, crushed

1 tablespoon poppy seeds

1 teaspoon Spanish smoked paprika

Sea salt and black pepper, to taste

1/4 cup pinenuts or sunflower seeds (to garnish)

Place the vegetables, grapes and herbs in a salad bowl. In a screw top jar, shake oil. lemon juice and zest, garlic, poppy seeds, smoked paprika and seasoning until combined. Mix dressing though salad ingredients and garnish with pinenuts/sunflower seeds.

That’s it – couldn’t be easier!

And you know what else couldn’t be easier? Entering the new competition. The exciting news is that I’m making progress with the recipe book. I haven’t quite decided whether it will be an e-book, or a “real” (i.e., paper) book, or both. So if you add a comment, helping me to decide that, you go in the draw for a free copy once it’s released. Alternatively, let me know which recipe(s) from the blog, or from workshops/demos, you would most like to see included. And if that doesn’t give you enough options, you can hop on over to the facebook page and enter there too – you’re allowed to enter both here and on FB. Go to it – you have until midnight Friday 21st March to enter.