There is a falafel shop here in Kfar Saba (ארבע תעמים) that serves up their falafel with a to-die-for green sauce. Honestly, I go there just for the sauce! When I ask what’s in it, the guy mumbles something about garlic, lemon and parsley. But truly I can’t believe that’s it. It’s so addictive, it’s probably straight MSG or something.
Anyhoo, in a seemingly unrelated story, Israeli farmers grow a lot of cauliflower. Year-round. Cauliflower, cauliflower, cauliflower. I know it’s great for health and I do like it’s taste, but man, I get BORED of those giant white brains!
So tonight I’m standing in the kitchen thinking “What to do with this cauliflower?” and I get this Jimmy Neutron-esque Brain Blast:
Cauliflower with Green Herb Sauce
Glorious Green Herb Sauce
2 cups celery leaves*
2 cups fresh parsely leaves
1 cup fresh mint leaves
juice of 1 lemon
2 cloves garlic
1 T olive oil
Blend all in food processor. Add salt and pepper to taste.
*OK, so I used the celery leaves because Israeli farmers also grow a lot of celery. A LOT. Huge celery with tons of green leaves on top which you buy but then cannot fit in your fridge. I make juice with as many of the leaves as I can, but there are so many! If you live in a country not so celery-leaf-endowed, you can use more parsley.
Or use cilantro, which I really wanted to use, but I really want to not be divorced more.
Serve in falafel or over steamed cauliflower as above.
That sauce sounds so yummy.IN the Hippo falafel place near Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv the sauces there are the best part;D
I love those celery leaves,and use them all the time in my smoothies:)
‘I really want to not be divorced more” – what does this mean? Aside from the split infinitive…the sauce sounds so good that you’re forgiven!
I know that sentence is a mess, but it was on purpose. Explanation: If I put that much cilantro in the sauce, my husband (a cilantro-hater) would divorce me. So I’d really like cilantro in the sauce but I’d really like to not be divorced MORE (than I want cilantro). Gettit?? xo