Japanese Pink Grapefruit, Fennel & Watercress Salad
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Recipe type: Salad, Appitizer
Cuisine: Japanese, Raw, Vegan, Gluten-free
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Serves: 4
 
Vibrant pink salad, perfect to serve to your special someone. Tangy pink grapefruit combined with peppery radish and watercress, while the fennel adds an aniseed flavour, topped off with wasabi punch.
Ingredients
Salad
  • 4 packed cups watercress
  • 1 handful of radishes, finely sliced
  • 2 bulbs of fennel
  • 2 grapefruits
  • ½ cup whole almonds, roughly chopped
Dressing
  • 2½ tsp wasabi paste
  • ½ tsp miso paste
  • 1 tbsp agave
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp grapefruit juice (or lime juice)
Instructions
  1. For the salad, cut the fennel use a mandolin to thinly slice the two fennel bulbs lengthways. If you don't have a mandolin, you can slice them as thin as possible by hand. Place in a large bowl.
  2. Slice off the skin and the outer membrane of the pink grapefruits and slice the whole fruit thinly or cut into segments. Add into the bowl of fennel.
  3. Add the rest of the salad ingredients to the bowl and set aside.
  4. For the dressing, combine all the ingredients together and whisk.
  5. Pour the dressing into the salad and toss to coat and combine.
  6. Refrigerate until you are ready to serve!
Recipe by The Hungry Herbivores at https://www.thehungryherbivores.com/japanese-pink-grapefruit-fennel-watercress-salad/