Shaved Zucchini with Feta, Mint and Red Pepper Flakes

Anna’s Zucchini Salad

NOTES

Great for parties, can sit out without getting soggy, festive, simple, colorful. 

INSTRUCTIONS

Using a vegetable peeler, make ribbons from your zucchini, shaving the vegetable in a downward motion (discard the first sliver which will be mostly the skin of the vegetable). Arrange on a platter, allowing for as much volume as possible when placing the pieces on top of one another.

Scatter mint leaves on top of zucchini ribbons, and crumble feta on top.

Slice chili pepper thinly, remove seeds from each slice and discard. Disperse around the zucchini and the feta on the platter.

Before cutting for the salad, remove the tops and the bottom part of the radishes, so it will be flat on two ends. Cut thin slices of radish and scatter on the pile.

In a jar, combine all ingredients for the dressing and shake vigorously. Taste, should be acidic but thick. If you need more olive oil, just add slowly and shake, taste.

Spoon dressing over the vegetables, sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. Serve.

RECIPE

DIFFICULTY

EASY

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SERVES

6

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PREP TIME

10 MINS

Salad

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    small zucchini
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    red radishes
  • handful 
    mint leaves
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    Fresno Chili Pepper
  • 1/2 
    cup 
    Barrel-Aged Sheep of Goat Feta Cheese (should come in a brine)

Dressing

  • tsp 
    mustard
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    lemon, juiced
  • tsp 
    white sugar
  • 1/3 
    cup 
    olive oil
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    sea salt and cracked pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Using a vegetable peeler, make ribbons from your zucchini, shaving the vegetable in a downward motion (discard the first sliver which will be mostly the skin of the vegetable). Arrange on a platter, allowing for as much volume as possible when placing the pieces on top of one another.

Scatter mint leaves on top of zucchini ribbons, and crumble feta on top.

Slice chili pepper thinly, remove seeds from each slice and discard. Disperse around the zucchini and the feta on the platter.

Before cutting for the salad, remove the tops and the bottom part of the radishes, so it will be flat on two ends. Cut thin slices of radish and scatter on the pile.

In a jar, combine all ingredients for the dressing and shake vigorously. Taste, should be acidic but thick. If you need more olive oil, just add slowly and shake, taste.

Spoon dressing over the vegetables, sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. Serve.

Anna Karlin is native to London, but was born to inhabit her Lower East Side studio (I suspect she might be single-handedly keeping that neighborhood cool). In this sunny, 4 story walk-up, Anna designs daring furniture and fine objects, interiors, sets, digital and print, and she manages to throw some notable parties on the rooftop in her spare time. The moment I enter her space, I have the urge to burn everything I own and start over, restricting my material world to glass, ceramic, ash wood and brass (and black leather for my wardrobe).

Anna Karlin in Her Own Words

JuliaThe materials you work with are very specific and deliberate. Do you approach cooking in a similar fashion?

Anna: It depends – if you are going really simple then I am an ingredient snob. You get what you pay for with meat, fish and cheese. If I am making a spice-laden curry, then anything goes. I also hate food waste so I love to reinvent leftovers. It is a British habit to re-incarnate the Sunday Roast a million different ways

Julia: How would you describe your approach to entertaining?

Anna: I like a fest, not an 80’s style Cordon Bleu dinner party. Dinner parties are all about the visual – the table needs to look better than it tastes! I do most of my entertaining in London; Manhattan apartments can be a tough place to host dinner for 15. I do occasionally design and produce events where I get to unleash my inner hostess…with a budget. I love designing the food for those occasions.

Julia: Your tables and objects look so perfect together. When you design, do you imagine food and drinks and miscellaneous household objects mingling with your pieces?  Or is your ideal consumer one whose entire home is designed by you?

Anna: My personal style is eclectic and my pieces are meant to work with that. Each piece I make is a little gem,  not meant to dominate your world.

Julia: I spied some prototypes for salad servers on your desk. Clearly Salad For President followers and Anna Karlin Studio customers are part of the same venn diagram. Do you think there might be a collaboration in our future?

Anna: Yes!! I am very excited about our next collection. I think a Salad for President collaboration would be most chic. I’ll have to make you a special set of the servers.

Julia: (Silent and restrained jumps for joy)