Love that the Aluma Farm recipe helps you understand how much brine to make, depending on how many pickles you’re putting up. Really helpful for those of us pickling on the fly.
Kohlrabi
(2019) Mark Bittman’s Vegetable Pancakes
Vegetable pancakes seem to be a thing these days, and I love this recipe from Mark Bittman that will use up any vegetable you have on hand. You can use some of that lettuce if you chop it and maybe saute a little before mixing into the batter. Spinach? Sure. Grated kohlrabi. Absolutely. Chopped cabbage, probably anything from this week’s box except maybe the tomatoes which might turn watery.We eat these either with a little soy sauce or a little hot honey. That’s my new addiction and I’m not even a fan of hot sauces. But hot and sweet like the hot honeys people are producing these days? Love it.
Kohlrabi Gratin
Last week I was all about keeping that kohlrabi raw to enjoy the beautiful purple color. This week I’m about a gratin. It’s not an everyday dish, but it’s delicious.
Purple Kohlrabi Slaw
I love cooked kohlrabi, but it would be sort of a shame to cook that pretty purple kohlrabi. How about a slaw? This is an unusual take on slaw, using yogurt instead of the usual mayonnaise or sour cream. Apple is traditional in these kinds of slaw. When apples are not in season, you could use blueberries or firm chopped peach instead.
Kohlrabi Chips
No doubt most of you have experimented with kale chips. How about kohlrabi chips? This recipe comes to us by way of the Wednesday morning Dunwoody Green Market.
Jenn Robbins’ Purple Kohlrabi Slaw
Jenn Robbins of Avalon Catering created this recipe to showcase colorful purple kohlrabi. It’s just as delicious with the more common green variety but it’s perfect for the purple variety which loses its lovely color when it’s cooked.
Slaw wasn’t her only idea for using this vegetable. “I love kohlrabi! It creams beautifully with the greens mixed in, goes great in a potato salad dressed with a lemon vinaigrette, we also shave it and mix it into chicken salad, use it in our cold weather glazed/scalloped vegetable dish and I have even seen a peer make kohlrabi kraut,” she said. So now you’ve got lots of other ideas for your kohlrabi.
Creamy Kohlrabi Slaw
www.cooks.com
A search on “kohlrabi” on this site netted three pages containing 27 recipes, including this traditional creamy slaw suggestion. It’s not particularly seasonable for Georgia, and uses other ingredients that I don’t typically have in the kitchen, however you can easily amend this to work in your kitchen based on what you have on hand: substitute a mixture of ketchup and mayonaise for the French dressing, honey for the sugar, cabbage for the carrots, or add thinly sliced red or green bell pepper.
notes about kohlrabi
Roasted Kohlrabi
Another resource, allrecipes.com suggests this easy recipe.
German Style Stuffed Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi season always reminds me of our neighbor Joy who told us of the German’s love for kohlrabi, which inspired a children’s song that she sang for us on the porch. This recipe sounds worthy of that inspiration! Make it easier by substituting Riverview’s breakfast sausage for the ground pork, paprika, marjoram, and caraway.