Kohlrabi is a special kind of cabbage that is very popular in many European countries. You can prepare many tasty and healthy dishes from this original stemblender (appetizers, stews, soups, casseroles and even sauces), but most often they make kohlrabi salad. Using various additional components, you can think of many options for such an appetizer.

Simple kohlrabi and carrot coleslaw

As a rule, kohlrabi stems are used as food, which in their aerial parts form a spherical fruit.

It has a tender and very juicy core. To taste, it partly resembles a cabbage stalk, but much sweeter and more aromatic.

For starters, you can try to make the simplest salad of kohlrabi with carrots. Both of these vegetables have a pleasant sweet taste and juicy flesh. For a fresh salad, this is a very good combination. You can prepare such a simple dish in many ways.

For example, you can take:

  • 0.5 kg kohlrabi;
  • 50 grams of fresh carrots;
  • 50 ml of sunflower oil (odorless);
  • 25 grams of celery (greens).

To make such a salad is not at all difficult:

  1. First, vegetables (carrots and kohlrabi) need to be thoroughly washed and peeled.
  2. Grind them with a coarse grater.
  3. Put prepared foods in a deep plate.
  4. Pour them with oil and mix thoroughly.
  5. Finely chop the celery with a sharp knife.
  6. Sprinkle the prepared salad with chopped herbs.

To prepare such a dish you need no more than a quarter of an hour. The result is a juicy and unusually tasty kohlrabi salad. Breakfast with him will be a good start to the day.

Cooking with Cucumber

There is another good kohlrabi cabbage salad, which you can also add to your cooking piggy bank.

The list of ingredients necessary for its preparation is minimal:

  • 4 medium-sized cucumbers;
  • 300 g kohlrabi;
  • 1 clove of garlic;
  • salt;
  • 120 grams of sour cream (or yogurt);
  • 2 sprig of dill.

Such a dish is prepared in three stages:

  1. The first step is to rinse well and chop the vegetables into strips. Kohlrabi should first be cleaned.
  2. Make the sauce. To do this, grind sour cream, garlic, salt and dill in a blender.
  3. Combine the chopped vegetables with the sauce and mix.

It turns out a very light refreshing salad, which is ideal as a snack for dinner on a hot summer day.

Healthy Appetizer with Apples

Scientists claim that kohlrabi is a real storehouse of all kinds of useful substances. No wonder it is often called a lemon grown in the garden.

In winter, when the human body needs vitamins, you can cook a delicious and healthy kohlrabi salad with fresh apples.

For work you only need:

  • 1 small apple (sour);
  • 1 kohlrabi fruit (about the same size);
  • 25 - 30 grams of low-fat mayonnaise;
  • 1 teaspoon of French mustard.

Technology for making salad:

  1. Kohlrabi carefully cleaned, and then rub with large strips. Here you can use a special grater for shredding.
  2. Wash the apple, peel and core the seeds. The flesh remaining after this procedure is cut into strips.
  3. Put the crushed ingredients in a bowl.
  4. Add mustard, mayonnaise to them and mix.

It will take just a few minutes for a juicy and very tender salad with a pleasant aromatic dressing to be on the table. During the meal, mustard seeds crackle slightly on the teeth, which gives the dish a special piquancy.

Salad: kohlrabi, cheese and rice

Kohlrabi blends perfectly with almost any product. There is one interesting salad, which is simultaneously present: kohlrabi, cheese, rice, sweet bell pepper, as well as fresh herbs and the original mixed dressing. The dish is hearty, healthy and very beautiful.

The composition of the salad:

  • 200 g of kohlrabi and as much boiled rice;
  • 40 g of hard cheese;
  • 1 pod of red bell pepper;
  • 50 g of sunflower oil;
  • 1 bunch of green feather onions;
  • 5 g of balsamic vinegar;
  • 25 g of soy sauce.

Step-by-step instructions for preparing salad:

  1. Boil long-grain rice in any convenient way. It should turn out friable.
  2. Rub the peeled kohlrabi into thin strips. For this purpose, you can take a special grater for Korean carrots.
  3. Scrub the bell pepper by removing the middle with the seeds. Rinse the pulp and cut into small cubes.
  4. Finely chop the onion.
  5. Collect all these products in a salad bowl and mix.
  6. Prepare a sophisticated dressing. To do this, in a separate bowl you need to mix the oil with vinegar and soy sauce.
  7. Pour the ingredients into the cooked dressing and mix them again.
  8. After this, the dish should be infused. To do this, it must be refrigerated for a couple of hours.
  9. After the specified time, lay out the finished salad, sprinkle with grated cheese and decorate with any fresh herbs.

One type of salad is already causing appetite. It can turn out to be a completely independent dish or an original complex side dish.

How to make beets

Another option for kohlrabi salad will appeal to lovers of simple recipes for vegetable dishes. Make it not be difficult even for a novice cook.

To work, you will need:

  • 1 large kohlrabi fruit;
  • 3 cloves of garlic;
  • 1 cream cheese
  • salt;
  • 1 boiled beet (small size);
  • 50 g of walnut kernels;
  • pepper;
  • some mayonnaise.

Such a dish is being prepared gradually:

  1. First you need to boil the beets. It is better to do this in advance so as not to waste precious time.
  2. Rinse the kohlrabi and carefully cut off the dense peel from it.
  3. Peel the garlic.
  4. Grate beets, kohlrabi and cheese on a grater with large cells. It is better to freeze the cheese in advance.
  5. Finely chop the nuts and garlic with a sharp knife.
  6. Mix all these products in a deep plate.
  7. Add a little pepper, salt (to taste) and season with mayonnaise.

Before you bring the salad to the table, it is advisable to cool it a little. During this time, juicy vegetables will have time to exchange aromas.

Harvesting from kohlrabi for the winter

A good housewife always tries to stock up healthy vegetables for the future. Indeed, in the winter it can sometimes be difficult to find. And kohlrabi is no exception.

The crushed fruits are salted, sour or pickled. But the best option for harvesting kohlrabi for the winter is a salad. And usually it is very simple.

But in the winter such a salad will be a real find.

Take, for example, the option for which you need:

  • 2 medium kohlrabi;
  • 1 liter of drinking water;
  • 1 large onion;
  • 100 grams of sugar;
  • 5 peas of allspice;
  • 30 g of salt;
  • 2 leaves of laurel;
  • 50 ml of table vinegar.

Methods for preparing a fragrant snack for the winter:

  1. Peel kohlrabi fruits, and then gently cut them into thin strips.
  2. Boil chopped cabbage for 5 minutes in boiling water, and then discard in a colander. Wait for all the moisture to drain.
  3. Chopped peeled onions in half rings.
  4. Mix it with boiled kohlrabi and put in pre-sterilized jars. At the bottom of each jar, be sure to put pepper and bay leaf.
  5. Boil a measured amount of water in a pan. Add salt, sugar and mix. Wait for the crystals to completely dissolve.
  6. Pour the contents of the cans with the prepared marinade. Add a spoonful of vinegar to each container.
  7. Cover the banks with lids, sterilize in a water bath for 45 minutes, and then roll up.
  8. Wrap the preservation tightly, and after cooling, store in a cool place (shed, basement or on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator).

The salad will turn out much tastier if you use red or white onions instead of the usual onions.

Delicious Kohlrabi Salad with Egg

For a quick snack, kohlrabi cabbage salad with a boiled egg is perfect. It will also be a great snack option in case guests suddenly rush into the house.

To work, you need only 4 components:

  • 3 eggs;
  • salt;
  • 3 little kohlrabi;
  • mayonnaise.

You can make such a salad in just 10 minutes:

  1. The first step is to put the boil eggs.
  2. During this time, peel and peel the kohlrabi fruits on a grater.
  3. Pour boiled eggs with cold water, and then peel them and finely crush them.
  4. Transfer products to a clean plate, salt and season with mayonnaise.

While the guests wash their hands and sit at the table, the dish will be ready.

Seed Recipe

To make a light snack as useful and nutritious as possible, you can use the simplest version of kohlrabi salad, which contains the most common foods:

  • 1 kohlrabi fruit;
  • sunflower seeds (fried);
  • 2 feathers of green onions.

Dressing ingredients:

  • lemon juice;
  • pepper;
  • olive oil;
  • salt.

How to make such a dish:

  1. To clean washed kohlrabi, and then thinly cut into strips.
  2. Finely chop the onion.
  3. Transfer both ingredients into a bowl.
  4. Add seeds to them. You can even take those that are sold in the store.
  5. After mixing lemon juice with oil, salt and pepper, make a dressing.
  6. Pour it into a bowl with crushed products and mix thoroughly.

If desired, you can add other fresh herbs (dill or parsley) to this salad. The salad is simple but very healthy.

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