I came across the Food and Wine recipe called Red Cabbage with baked cherries and almond dukkah recipe. I thought it sounded delicious to me but I didn’t have cherries. I had strawberries so I made some changes as I was following the recipe. Like balsamic goes better with strawberries than sherry. I also changed the vinaigrette to make it tastier. I used Food and Wine’s almond dukkah recipe but left out the maple syrup because everything is sweet enough and I don’t think maple syrup belongs anyway. Made several other changes and reduced the recipes to make 4 servings instead of 8 or more servings.

Ingredients for around 4 servings

1/4 of small red cabbage – finely shredded on a mandolin

12 strawberries – sliced in half

1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar

1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 Tablespoon date syrup

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

2 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar (dressing)

1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (dressing)

1 Tablespoon dijon (dressing)

1 Tablespoon date syrup (dressing)

1 apple – sliced thin

1 orange – just the fresh squeezed juice goes on apple slices

1/4 cup almonds – lightly crush

1 teaspoon fennel seeds

1 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds

1 Tablespoon toasted salted sunflower seeds

1 1/2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds

1/4 teaspoon paprika

Directions

Heat oven to 300 degrees F.

Place strawberry halves on a baking sheet.

In a small mixing bowl combine the 1 Tablespoon balsamic with 1 Tablespoon olive oil, 1 Tablespoon date syrup and 1/4 teaspoons of salt and pepper. Mix well. Pour over strawberries. Put pan of strawberries in a pre-heated 300 degree F oven for 15 minutes. When done let them rest on the counter.

Shred up the cabbage if you haven’t already. Slice up apple. Put in a bowl and squeeze the fresh orange juice on it and set to the side.

Make dressing

In a small bowl add 2 Tablespoons balsamic, 1 Tablespoon olive oil, 1 Tablespoon dijon, and one Tablespoon date syrup and mix well. By this time your strawberries are cool and there is reduced juice and other liquids that you should add to the dressing and mix well.

Make dukkah.

Almonds and fennel seeds go in the preheated 300 degree oven till fragrant around 8 minutes. Cumin seeds go on a sheet and in oven for around 1 minute (just to heat up). All this gets crushed up some together. Add the sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and paprika.

In a large bowl mixed the cabbage, apples and strawberries together. Serve with dressing when ready to eat and top with dukkah.

Tasty and Pretty! A Special Thank You to Food and Wine Magazine for your Red Cabbage Salad with Baked Cherries Apples and Almond Dukkah Recipe. Without that I would not have thought up this.