{"id":61617,"date":"2014-07-18T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellerepublic.de\/kohlrabi-und-karotten-salat\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:13:41","slug":"carrot-kohlrabi-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellerepublic.de\/en\/carrot-kohlrabi-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrot Kohlrabi Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only really discovered kohlrabi a few years\u2013emmm, it\u2019s a vegetable. Heh, I was confused \u2014 It only sounded like a foreign word to me. It\u2019s a German term meaning \u201dcabbage turnip\u201d. Okay, doesn\u2019t sound great and it\u2019s not a looker, but it taste pretty amazing! It took me ages before I actually bought one since I had absolutely no idea what to do with it. So my kohlrabi consumption staggered quite gradually\u2026.but, realizing it makes for the perfect portable snack, I am enjoying them pretty often. So much better than carrot sticks!<\/p>\n

So what is it? Well, the name comes from the German \u201cKohl\u201dmeaning cabbage plus \u201cR\u00fcbe ~ Rabi\u201d, the Swiss German for turnip. Turnip because of its shape, and I guess cabbage, since it\u2019s a member of that family. Not actually a root vegetable, it grows just above the ground, with its stem swelling into a ball-shaped knob with spindly leaves. Yes, it looks strange and it\u2019s pretty difficult to describe it\u2019s taste. Wonderfully crunchy served raw. It\u2019s juicy, mild and sweet with the flavor that\u2019s a bit of a mix between broccoli, cabbage, with perhaps a subtle hint of turnip (I despise turnip, so when I say this, I mean very subtle). When it is cooked, this taste transforms into surprisingly something much, much deeper.<\/p>\n

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Apparently, kohlrabi originated in the coastal areas of the Mediterranean and by AD 800, the French emperor Charlemagne ordered that it be grown in his kingdom, however only to be used as cattle feed since the royal physicians warned him that it would make his soldiers a bit daft and a whole lot more peaceful\u2026enjoy!<\/p>\n

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