Old Cabbage Salad

This is something you can find only at Eloro District. This kind of Cabbage was close to extinction. Very traditional in the past have it planted close to the house also used to draw the boundaries of Farms, this Cabbage have more properties normal cabbage have. It is wilder, so it’s very intense and doesn’t do flower, so you can eat leaves. Here we propose in a very simple salad with winter fresh products you can find in this District. 

Thanks to Brassicari Rosolinesi organization to take care this old variety with the help of Slow Food.

Ingredients:

• 500gr of Wild Cabbage Leaves
• 2 Lemons
• Salt
• Extra virgin Olive Oil

Preparation:

Take the leaves and cut it thinner. Then put it in lemon juice of 3/4 good lemons with some salt. Wait for one/two ours, add some extra virgin olive oil and serve it.