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When I was a child I hated vegetables, truly hated, I just could not stand them. And like any other mom, my mom also tried to force me into eating my vegetables. She used to quote the common warning: “If you don’t eat your vegetables, you will not grow”. Well, lucky I didn’t listen to you mom on that one as i’m already 178 cm tall, so who know’s what kind of a giraffe I would have ended up being if I ate all my vegetables?! I remember I used to wait for her to take her lunch nap, then I would quietly sneak out of the front door and throw my salad to the trash can in the yard.
Today, though, I’m loving vegetables. Somehow, gradually, at an older age, I learned to know them and to fall in love with them.
One of the cool features of vegetables is that the amount of dishes you can use them in is just endless, and yet, sometimes the simplest dish is the most tasty, and it is enough to present a cucumber in an aesthetic and an inviting way to make any child want to try it out (tip I learned: your kids are more prone to try the dish if they help prepare it with you, so let them roll!).
These rolls are simple to make, quick, tasty, and super healthy. They are happily matched with almost any type of your favorable spread, as long as its thick enough. The walnut spread presented in the recipe today, is one of my favorite options though, as the combination of the nuts with the fresh vegetables is superb.
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- 2 carrots, peeled
- 2 cucumbers
- 1 kohlrabi, peeled
- ½ cup walnuts
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ tea spoon salt
- 1 minced garlic clove (optional)
- Toothpicks
- Make the walnut spread:
- Place all the spread ingredients (1/2 cup walnuts, ¼ cup olive oil, ½ tea spoon salt, 1 minced garlic clove (optional)) in a blender and process until a thick spread is formed.
- Make the rolls:
- Use a mandoline slicer to slice all the vegetables to thin slices. The key here is to slice them as thinly as possible, to make them roll more easily. The cucumbers roll more easily than the carrots and kohlrabi BTW, but all eventually do roll.
- Spread the walnuts spread on the vegetable slices and roll them, close with a toothpick.
- Another option is to cut the slices and place them on top of each other creating cute little "sandwiches" with mixed vegetables (see picture above in post).