Recipe courtesy of Treacle Bar and Kitchen (@TreacleEdin)
Sprouting super salad
Ingredients;
Baby leaf spinach
Quinoa
Purple shiso sprouts
Shiso leaf (garnish)
Toasted coconut
Avocado
Daikon radish
Lotus root (pickled) (garnish)
Fenugreek oil (dressing)
Start by making the fenugreek oil to dress our salad with. Toast 50g of fenugreek seeds in sauce pan until you get hit with a strong fragrance and they start to smoke, add 1 cup of rapeseed oil or any flavourless oil to the sauce pan of seeds and heat on a low heat for 15 Minutes take off and put it to the side and let it cool completely.
Next we pickle the lotus root. Ingredients; 4 cups water 2 cups apple cider vinegar 1cup sugar 1 clove garlic 3 tbs of coriander seeds. 2 beetroots (precooked) and cubed. 1 segment of lotus root peeled and sliced wafer thin on the mandolin.
Combine all the ingredients except the lotus root into saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil and reduce the heat. Simmer for about five minutes. Now add your lotus root and blanch in the pickling liquid for 10 mins, remove from heat cool and jar.
Moving on, start with the Quinoa next The ratio is 1 cup of uncooked Quinoa to 2 cups of liquid. Bring quinoa and liquid to a boil in a medium saucepan. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer until tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
While the Quinoa is cooking wash and prepare your vegetables.
Wash two handfuls baby leaf spinach dry on a salad spinner one you have one, Same with the shiso sprouts And three shiso leafs Peel, then Julienne 80g the daikon radish. Cube half an avocado.
Now once our oil and pickled has cooled we can assemble the salad, in a large mixing bowl add. Two handfuls of spinach, two small handfuls of the shiso sprouts one handful of Quinoa, 40g of julienne daikon radish, half a cubed avocado finally add your toasted coconut chips and add the fenugreek oil toss and present in a shallow salad bowl garnish with 3 purple shiso leaves on top (fan out) and 3 of the pickled lotus root around the base.