This time of summer can be the hardest time to get inspired to cook. Here’s an idea for a nutritious veggie platter in rainbow colors that is fresh and light.
It makes beautiful appetizer for a party, but could also be served as part of a meal at home. Kids love to dip the veggies into a sauce or hummus that you can put in a bowl in the middle of the vegetables.
Here I used red cabbage, carrots, cauliflower florets, collard greens and stems, and a parsley-tahini sauce. In macrobiotic cooking, this is called a “blanched salad,” which is comprised of a root vegetable (carrots), round vegetable (cabbage, cauliflower), and a leafy green vegetable (collard greens). The vegetables should be fresh, vibrant, and crisp– very different from steamed or boiled vegetables.
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Rainbow Veggie Platter with Parsley-Tahini Sauce
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Category: Appetizer
- Cuisine: Macrobiotic
Description
Delicious, colorful, and healthy summer appetizer.
Ingredients
Vegetables
- 2 large carrots, cut into sticks
- 1 bunch collard greens, stems in rounds, leaves in strips
- 1 small head cauliflower, cut into florets
- ½ head red cabbage, cut into strips
Parsley Tahini Sauce
- ¼ cup tahini
- ½ cup spring or filtered water
- juice of ½ lemon
- 1 teaspoons organic umeboshi vinegar
- 1 teaspoon shoyu or tamari
- 2 tablepoons parsley leaves, chopped finely
Instructions
Vegetable Platter
- Bring a pot of water to a rapid boil. The bigger the pot, the more boiling water to cook your veggies very quickly (in seconds).
- Dip vegetables into boiling water, starting with carrots, then collards, then cauliflower, then red cabbage. Blanch a handful at a time, and remove after a few seconds with a metal skimmer onto a big plate or platter to cool. Keep vegetables separate so that you can arrange them after they have cooled. Make sure pot comes back up to a boil before adding the next handful.
- Arrange the cooled vegetables on a platter with a dipping sauce.
Parsley-tahini sauce
- Whisk ingredients together in medium-sized bowl. Add more water if you’d like the sauce to be a little thinner.
