Healthy, exotic warm salad

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 1 fennel
• 1 pak choi
• 2 carrots
• ½ apple
• 1 tangerine(s)
• 100 g baby leaf spinach
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp ginger powder
• ½ tsp fennel seeds, ground
• oil

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Simple, delicious, and vegan, perfect for the cold season. For anyone who wants to try something new.

Wash the fennel and trim the stalks. Then halve, quarter, and eighth the fennel if necessary. It’s okay if the fennel pieces fall apart. Wash the bok choy and separate the individual pieces from the stalk. Cut the pieces into equal-sized pieces. If you like, you can leave the leaves on. You can also remove them to keep only the white part of the bok choy. Wash and chop the two carrots. Wash the apple and cut into small pieces. Peel the tangerine and cut it into individual pieces. Prepare the spinach. Rub a large pan with a little oil. Set the heat to medium. Add the fennel, bok choy, and carrots to the pan and sauté, covered, for about 7 minutes. Add two pinches of salt; just sprinkle it all over the pan. Add the apple pieces and the teaspoon of sugar and stir. Sauté for about 5 minutes, until the apple, bok choy, and fennel are relatively soft. Add the mandarins and press them down slightly to release the juices. This gives the salad a wintery feel, as the flavor is sweet and goes very well with the dish. Add the spinach and stir everything well. Watch for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally and then letting it stand for a while. Just before the end, add the ginger powder and fennel powder and stir everything well again. If you want the fennel and bok choy to be very soft, leave everything in the pan for another 5 minutes. The warm salad already has a very good flavor on its own, so if you leave out the spices and sugar, it’s no problem at all. I’m happy eating a larger meal with these ingredients on their own, but I estimate that the portion as stated here is more suitable for two medium-sized meals.