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OK, you have shamed me into posting something. I didn't want to post anybody else's recipe and anyway half the time I can't be bothered with recipes. I only use them for baking or something really new and unusual to me.
So, here goes. This is a winter salad starter, dead easy and I serve it with charcuterie or homemade fishcakes for non meat eaters.
Take 1/4 to 1/2 of a red cabbage (full of flavonoids or whatever that are now dubbed "superfoods") and shred finely
Take some spring onions or a nice mild white onion and dice finely
Then a couple of fistfuls of plump raisins
Throw all into a big mixing bowl and season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper
For a special occasion make some garlic mayonnaise or, if you are in a hurry or can't be a***d, good bought mayonnaise will do and use a generous helping of about 2 tablespoonsfuls
Mix well. Then chuck in a HUGE fistful of chopped parsely or the green bits of the spring onions or both.
For extra crunch, I use broken up walnuts (because I have 2 very prolific walnut trees in my garden) and scatter those on top. You can also use lightly toasted almonds, pine kernels or a mixture of crunchy seeds such as sesame, sunflower, hemp, etc.
The taste should be quite sweet and so you can use some chopped up dates if not sweet enough. The taste of the onion, whilst mild, should come through. My OH who hates raw onions will nonetheless eat this.
Best of all, you can make this a couple of hours in advance and it doesn't go all limp and horrible like most dressed salads. It looks very interesting with the rich purple of the cabbage, the white of the onion, and the green of the parsely. I like to serve it in a pretty glass dish or in a big earthenware shallow dish. As though it needs any more recommendation, it is both seasonal and quite filling!
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