Healthy and easy! With our ingredient of the month: apple. Just like soup is incredibly easy to make, so is a salad. Especially when you can find the ingredients in the supermarket. Unless, of course, you absolutely need a ripe avocado, which almost never happens. But anyway, here is a healthy recipe: crispy apple-fennel salad!
Did you know this about apples?
There are more than 7,500 different apple varieties around the world! In other words, if you want to try them all and eat one apple per day, it would take you twenty years. Challenge accepted!
Applephobia exists. As harmless as apples may seem to you, it’s a real thing. The phobia is called malusdomesticaphobia, and people who suffer from it may be afraid of the sight or even eating apples.
Apples are part of the rose family, just like pears and peaches.
Where many vegetables and fruits ripen slower in the fridge, apples do the opposite. Apples ripen up to ten times faster in the fridge!
Don’t peel your apple! Two-thirds of the fiber and antioxidants in an apple are found in the skin.
Many apples naturally get a waxy layer on the skin after being harvested. This is to keep bacteria away. Isn’t it amazing how nature works?
It takes about 5 years for an apple tree to produce fruit for the first time, but then it can bloom for up to 100 years!
The average person is said to eat about 65 apples per year.
Ingredients for the healthy apple-fennel salad recipe:
- 1 apple, Granny Smith or another sharp variety
- 1 fennel bulb
- 30 grams of walnuts or almonds
- A splash of Gkazas Olive Oil
- 1 tablespoon apple vinegar
- 1 teaspoon honey
- A handful of raisins
- A pinch of salt
Preparation method:
If you have a mandolin, great! (If not, just slice it by hand.) Set your mandolin to a thickness of about 2 millimeters. It doesn’t have to be exact, so don’t worry if some pieces are a bit thicker. Slice and set aside about 100 grams of apple and 100 grams of fennel.
Chop the nuts roughly.
Fill a bowl with the apple slices, fennel, and nuts. Dress with extra virgin Gkazas Olive Oil, vinegar, honey, raisins, and salt. So easy and so delicious. Enjoy!
