This light, crisp and refreshing combo with crisp fennel, celery and radish is your new got-to healthy salad. Combine it with a bright lemon and olive oil vinaigrette and some toasted sunflower seeds and you have a delicious lunch or a first course for dinner!
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Ingredients list for the fennel salad
Yield: 4 servings
- 2 fennel bulbs (white and light green parts only)
- 1-2 celery stalks + leaves
- 4 spring onions
- 8-10 radishes
- 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
- 5 sprigs of mint
- 5 sprigs of flat parsley
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
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Directions
1. Wash vegetables and herbs, peel the onions.
2. Finely chop fennel and celery stalks. Chop herbs and slice radishes. Dry roast sunflower seeds in a skillet until fragrant. Chop spring onion.
3. Mix lemon juice with olive oil, salt and pepper. Gently toss all of the ingredients with the vinaigrette and serve immediately.
Note: Before cutting the vegetables, soak them in a bowl of ice-cold water with ice cubes to make them extra crunchy.
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