Seriously, this vegetable is weird. This is my best approximation.
If you can't make heads or tails of this picture, you're not alone. Check out a search for images of kohlrabi to make more sense of it. Some kohlrabi is actually a green color, which makes marginally more sense, but we got the purple kind this week, and now I can't quite shake the feeling that we're about to eat the alien opera singer from The Fifth Element.
Image from film The Fifth Element, obviously.
According to the 10-second search I did, kohlrabi is a vegetable in the cabbage family. I find this a little hard to believe, since it looks nothing like cabbage. In fact, it looks about as much like cabbage as kale does, which is amusing because kale is apparently also in the cabbage family. Remember kale?
So all we know about this vegetable is that it is related somehow to both cabbage and kale, that it looks like an alien, and that apparently, it tastes something like broccoli stems. With no idea what to do with it, we looked up a random recipe and made kohlrabi cole slaw. Kohlrabislaw, if you will.
As it happens, kohlrabi may look weird, but it tastes delicious. In Brian's own words it was "undoubtedly the best non-cabbage-based slaw I've had this year." Which begs the question how many non-cabbage-based slaws has Brian had this year.
Kohlrabislaw (with apples)
1 or 2 kohlrabi bulbs
1 or 2 apples (gala apples worked well for this)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 tbs plain yogurt
1 tbs lemon juice
1/2 tbs dijon mustard
1/2 tbs sugar
salt and pepper to taste
Steps:
1. Peel kohlrabi and cut into little slivers
2. Cut core out of apple and also cut into little slivers. You can leave the peel on if you like, it is tasty.
3. Mix remaining ingredients, toss with chopped kohlrabi and apples
