Tu B’shevat has arrived and it’s a huge celebration for me.
There’s nothing like celebrating our country’s New Year for the trees with joy and food from the land.
When I was thinking about what recipes we would prepare for Tu B’shevat,
I imagined our holiday table,
And my dried fruit salad
It’s such a central and happy dish.
So I decided to turn it into a Tu B’shevat salad,
This Tu B’shevat salad will become a tradition from now on,
Because who doesn’t love salad?
And who doesn’t like dried fruit?
So it’s time to combine them into one wonderful salad,
A Tu B’shevat salad!
My festive and happy salad,
That’ll make every meal delicious and enjoyable,
That’ll decorate any festive table, not just the Tu B’shevat table,
And embellish the beloved holiday that’s very close to my heart.
Tu B’shevat salad is the new fun for all of us,
Very quickly it will become a regular and wonderful salad,
That everyone will wait to eat at every festive event.
A few super quick minutes of preparation and it’s ready to celebrate with you 🙂
Happy Holidays to all of us 🙂
Tu B’shevat salad | image: Essy Roz
Tu B’shevat salad
Ingredients
Suitable for a salad bowl for 4 diners
For the dressing:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- A little lemon zest
- Juice of half a lemon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder (not a must)
- 1 tablespoon honey (for a vegan version, have a look at “A little extra from me”)
Vegetables for the salad:
- ½ red onion cut into thin half circles
- 2 heads of shredded romaine lettuce
- 6-8 dried apricots cut into slices
- 3 tablespoons black raisins
- ¼ cup coarsely broken pecans
- You can choose any vegetable or dried fruit you like for salad
- The pecans can also be replaced with any other nut or seed you choose
- The red onion can be replaced with green onion or chives
Preparation
Let’s start by cutting the onion, we’ll try to cut it thinly so that the dressing we’ll make for the salad will soak it up a little and make it sweet and wonderful.
Prepare the salad dressing at the bottom of the salad bowl. This is the best way to wrap the whole salad in flavor and work easily in the kitchen.
Put all the sauce ingredients into the bowl and mix. Scatter the thin slices of onion that we cut in the sauce and mix again.
Cut the lettuce into slightly thick slices, which will be able to gather the dried fruits and the pickled onions that we’ll add to them.
Scatter the cut lettuce on the layer of onion and sauce, sprinkle the dried fruits and pecans on top and our salad is ready.
The salad can wait in this state until the moment of its serving, you can prepare it a few hours in advance before the meal and then mix and serve in close proximity to the meal 🙂
A little extra from me:
- I recommend eating in close proximity to preparing the dish. If you have salad leftovers (which I doubt will happen because this salad is a WOW) you can keep them in a sealed box in the fridge for 1 day, the freshness and crispness will decrease but the salad will still be wonderful.
- Our stunning salad vinaigrette will work with any vegetable you choose for it. If you feel like making a kale salad or another type of lettuce and combining other vegetables that you like, the vinaigrette will work wonderfully.
- For a vegan version: you can replace the honey with date honey / maple syrup.
- You can prepare the dressing and add the red onion to it even a day before the meal, and assemble the salad in close proximity to the meal. The onion will surrender to the dressing and the flavors will be wonderful! If you choose this version, add a little more lemon juice to your sauce.
Tu B’shevat salad – steps | image: Essy Roz
Tu B’shevat salad | image: Essy Roz
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