Winter Root Vegetable Slaw

The choice of root vegetables here works well, but you are free to mix and match. Just be sure to not have too many sweet vegetables like carrots and parsnips, or too many sharp ones, like radishes or turnips.

Ingredients
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 cup sherry or red wine vinegar
1 cup chopped parsley, loosely packed
2/3 cup olive oil
2 large carrots (choose different colored carrots if you can find them)
2 medium parsnips
1 small celery root
2 black radishes or 1/2 daikon radish
Method
1 Put the mustard, salt, sugar, vinegar and parsley in a blender and process until combined, about 30 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the blender, cover and process at its slowest setting. Drizzle in the olive oil slowly. When it is all in, move the blender to its highest setting and puree for about 90 seconds.

2 Peel all the vegetables except for the radishes, if you are using black ones. The slivers of black in the salad look cool, so I leave them in. Using a vegetable peeler or a coarse grater, slice shreds off the vegetables into a bowl. Try to keep the shreds roughly the same length if you can.

3 To finish, toss some of the vinaigrette with the shredded vegetables and let stand in the fridge for at least 20 minutes before serving.

Yield: Serves 4-6 as a side dish

Friday, July 15, 2011 by For Her · 0