If I ask you to combine cabbage, carrot, apple, peanut butter, and raisins, how does that sound? It sounded intriguing to me, so I followed the recipe on page 290 and threw together the Peanut Butter Chow Chow from The Passionate Palate
for dinner one night not long ago. 'Twas a delicious thing.
for dinner one night not long ago. 'Twas a delicious thing.
I shredded the cabbage and carrot, diced up the apple, too. It wasn't an entire cabbage, carrot, or apple, just a bit of this and a bit of that. Think in terms of small amounts - one cup of cabbage, versus one entire cabbage.
Then add raisins to taste, some peanut butter, and stir until combined. Use apple juice to make the mixing easier.
The book suggests serving the concoction on bread. I used a fork and some tortilla chips. While it doesn't keep well overnight, eaten fresh, the Peanut Butter Chow Chow is tasty, easy, and filling. Author Desiree Witkowski also says it's "low-calorie" and "provides fifty percent of the RDA for fiber." It's a keeper!
This is basically like a Girl Scout recipe I learned many years ago called a walking salad. Cabbage leaf with PB, and chopped or sliced apple, raisin, and carrots. The cabbage leaf was smeared with peanut butter, covered with fruit and carrot, rolled up into a handy portable salad.
ReplyDeleteThere was another version with cabbage leaf, peanut butter and dill pickle but the thought of dill and peanut butter was not appealing at the time so I never tried it.
Great memory! I looked online. www.girlscoutsww.org talks about a "Walking Salad" being a cored out apple filled with apple, mayo, etc. It also mentions a "Roll-M-Up" being cream cheese or peanut butter spread on a lettuce or cabbage leaf; raisins, pickle, cheese, and cold cuts are optional additions.
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