Simple Healthy Daikon Salad with Carrot and Apple

Cooking method

1. Step 1:

   

   How do you make a simple, healthy salad of daikon, carrot, and apple? First, gather all the ingredients you'll need. You can increase or decrease the amount of any of them to your liking. The flavor of the finished salad depends a lot on which variety of apple you use. If you have sweet-and-sour apples, use only a little lemon juice.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the vegetables. Rinse the radish, carrot, herbs, and apples under running water and pat them dry with paper towels to remove any droplets of leftover water.

3. Step 3:

   

   Grate the daikon on a coarse grater and put it in a deep bowl.

4. Step 4:

   

   Grate the carrot the same way and add it to the daikon.

5. Step 5:

   

   You can peel the apples first, but I prefer to leave the skin on, since it's full of vitamins. Grate the apple, add it to the rest of the ingredients, and immediately sprinkle it with freshly squeezed lemon juice. The lemon keeps the apple from browning, so the salad looks more appetizing.

6. Step 6:

   

   Drizzle the salad with vegetable or olive oil, season with salt to taste if needed, and add a pinch of allspice or ground black pepper.

7. Step 7:

   

   Toss the finished salad and taste it to see if there's enough salt, tang, and oil, adding whatever's missing. Garnish the salad with freshly chopped herbs — dill, parsley, or green onion work great. I also add a few slivers of red salad onion; it dresses up the finished dish and goes well with daikon, carrot, and apple.

8. Step 8:

   

   You can grate everything on a julienne (Korean-carrot) grater and use frozen herbs instead of fresh ones.