Recipe: Sunchoke and Apple Salad

from NYTimes Cooking

Ingredients:

12 sunchokes
Olive oil to coat the sunchokes
4 apples, sliced
2 tablespoons toasted pumpkin seeds
Mixed greens: radicchio, bok choy, mizuna, celery leaves
1/2 cup celery, minced
1 tablespoon shallot, minced

Apple Cider Viniagrette:
1 cup apple cider
2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste

 

Preparation: 

Prepare the sunchokes. Wash sunchokes with the skin on. Slice 2 sunchokes, raw, into thin strips using a mandoline; set aside. Roast the remaining sunchokes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place them in a pan with olive oil, and roast for about 40 minutes.

Toss the hot sunchokes with the remaining salad ingredients.

Prepare the cider vinaigrette by combining all the vinaigrette ingredients; dress the salad and season with salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with raw sunchoke slices.

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