Bonjour my friends, I’m Frankie and welcome to Club Foody!
It doesn’t matter if it’s a special occasion, an event or simply an “every day meal”,
you know that having a salad is a good thing. It’s healthy and helps our body function.
During the Holidays, there’s one that I like to serve because it has
all the ingredients that are on the shelves right now...
In today’s episode, I’ll show you how to make my Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad!
This is such a fast salad to make which is perfect for the Holidays
when time can be quite challenging. With fresh and healthy ingredients,
this is a recipe that your guests will really enjoy. So my friends, let’s get cooking!
We’ll go ahead and toast the walnuts. So in a small skillet over medium heat,
we’ll add the nuts and toss often until we start smelling them.
You can do it in the oven but frankly, it takes only 5 minutes on the stovetop. Why toasting
walnuts or any other nuts? Well besides making them crunchier, it intensifies the nutty flavor.
Can you skip this step? Absolutely but why… you’re improving the texture and flavor of the walnuts.
When they’re done, we’ll transfer to a plate to cool off. Now let’s move on to the Brussels
sprouts… If you have a food processor, this is the time to use it. With the slicing disc on,
we’ll add the prepared sprouts through the feeding tube and you’ll see, it goes so fast!
If you don’t have this appliance, unfortunately you’ll have to do it by hand and that takes time.
We’re at the beginning of December so it’s not too late to put a food processor on your wish list for
Santa… c’mon now! See, it took me 1 minute to shave one pound of Brussels Sprouts… not bad
right! Next step, we’ll look after the apple… After coring and cubing it, we’ll pour in some
lemon juice and toss the cubes around making sure they’re well coated – this will prevent the apple
pieces from turning brown. All right, let’s assemble the salad. We’ll transfer the shaved
sprouts to a large salad bowl – if there are some bigger pieces here and there, simply slice them
by hand – then some finely chopped white onions but you can substitute shallots or red onions
followed by pomegranate seeds and if don’t know how to seed this fruit without making your kitchen
look like a murder scene, click on the link located at the top right corner of your screen.
We’ll also add our apple cubes, our toasted walnuts that we did earlier and finally Grana
Padano cheese but you can use Blue Cheese, Gruyère, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and so on.
We’ll toss until the ingredients are well mixed and serve immediately…
And my friends, this is our Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad!
Quick and easy to make, this is a festive salad to serve anytime but more so during the Holidays!
With a tasty combination of ingredients,
this healthy recipe is a great one to pair with my Pomegranate Molasses Dressing… mmm, yum!
I hope you give it a try soon and be sure to visit clubfoody.com for ingredient amounts,
directions and more info… Until next time my friends, bon appétit!