Romaine and Watercress Salad with Apple and Kohlrabi

Name: Romaine and Watercress Salad with Apple and Kohlrabi
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon, red wine vinegar; 1 1/2 teaspoons, very finely minced shallot; 1/2 teaspoon, mayonnaise; 1/2 teaspoon, Dijon mustard; 1/8 teaspoon, table salt; 3 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 1 small head, romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces (7 cups); 3 ounces (3 cups), watercress, torn into bite-size pieces; 6 ounces, kohlrabi, trimmed, peeled, and sliced thin (1 cup); 1 , Gala apple, cored, halved, and sliced thin; 1/4 cup coarsely chopped toasted and skinned, hazelnuts, divided

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2019

Side Dishes

Vegetables

Salads

It starts with skipping packaged greens and returning to the classic way of making salad—using crisp, mature head lettuces.

SERVES4

TIME25 minutes

Romaine and Watercress Salad with Apple and Kohlrabi

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

After trying a few alternatives, we found that hearty yet neutral romaine lettuce was the most solid partner for the spicy, tender watercress in this salad. Thinly slicing crunchy kohlrabi and apple allowed these ingredients to combine cohe...

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