Spring Is In The Air - Sorrel Beetroot Salad
By: Cookingstyle
Published: Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 3:15am

Ingredients




Sorrel flowers and stems
2 mediums beets
200 mls fresh orange juice
juice from half a lemon
1 green apple with skin on, sliced fine
8 tablespoons canola oil
2 teaspoons Honey
black pepper, to taste
salt, to taste

Preparation

1 Mix orange juice, lemon juice, oil, honey, black pepper, and salt in empty jar or bottle. Set aside. 2 Peel and grate the beets.  3 Chop the stems, keeping the top flowers. 4 Slice apple in quarters. 5 Mix all, pour dressing toss all together, saving the top flowers and apple slices for serving time.

About


Walking home from school was fun back then. On the way, we would pick all kinds of edible flowers. One of them was today's pick, Nodding Wood, or Sorrel. We used to remove the top flower and chew the stem. The stem is sour, very sour.    
Israel is blooming now. Spring is in the air, in the sky; nature is breathing, waking up. The breeze in the morning reminds me that Passover is just few weeks away. My daughter, Yair, and I went on our daily walk this morning in our neighborhood in northern Tel Aviv. We still have some green "lungs" of nature around, "no mans land". There I can find the flowers I miss every year when I am away from Israel. The camera with me 24/365 and all is documented all the time.So, I picked some Sorrel, not knowing yet what to do with it, and brought it home.
At home, I checked and found fresh beets. That's it: it's the perfect match, I say. The color combination is bright and stunning. Orange and lemon can be friended with then easily too. I could taste it already... my taste buds started working overtime...
So where am I? Oh yes, the salad, right? Why waste time? Open your eyes and senses  wide and follow.
You need, of course, some wild sorrel; I hope you can get some when spring comes to your place.
Serving Suggestions:
Serve salad on top of apple slice layer. Garnish with flowers on top.
You can add some toasted walnuts or pine nuts.
I think this will be perfect match with grilled fish, chicken or seafood.
You are allowed to eat as much as you can.
And please remember: wild flowers in Israel are protected by law. Not all of them- sorrel in not among them as far as i know. 
Enjoy