It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this one is pink on purpose. Twelve rows of everything pink I could find — pickled turnips, radicchio, beets, grapefruit, red onion — laid across an oval platter, with a pink Greek dressing blended with a raw beet.
I made it pink because it’s October. But I made it for the people in my life who have been through this: the ones who came out the other side, and the ones still in it.
Ingredients
The Rows
- Pickled turnips
- Radishes, sliced thin
- Radicchio, torn
- Red peppers, sliced thin
- Napa cabbage, shredded
- Red cabbage, shredded
- Rutabaga, spiralized
- Pink tomatoes, halved
- Beets, raw and spiralized
- Pink grapefruit, segmented
- Red onions, finely diced
Over the Top
- Pomegranate seeds
- Sumac
- Dried rose petals
Pink Greek Dressing
- ½ cup Greek yogurt, generous
- ⅓–½ cup feta
- ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 Tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 Tbsp pomegranate molasses
- 1 Tbsp dried oregano
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tsp salt, to taste
- ¼–½ small raw beet, peeled
Instructions
- Blend the dressing. Everything but the beet into a blender, and run it until smooth.
- Add the beet last. Start with a quarter of a small raw beet and blend. Add more only until it is the pink you want — too much and it turns earthy and dark instead of bright.
- Cut everything cold. Shred the cabbages, spiralize the rutabaga and beets, slice the peppers and radishes thin, dice the onion small. Cut the grapefruit last.
- Lay the rows. Across a long oval platter, in this order: pickled turnips, radishes, radicchio, red peppers, Napa cabbage, red cabbage, rutabaga, tomatoes, Napa cabbage again, beets, grapefruit, red onions. Napa and rutabaga are not filler — they are what keep the reds and pinks from blurring into each other.
- Finish the top. Pomegranate seeds down the middle, sumac dusted along the seams, rose petals over everything.
- Drizzle, do not toss. Pour the dressing over in a slow ribbon at the table. Toss it and the rows are gone.
Spiralize the beets rather than grating them — grated beet bleeds into its neighbours and you lose the lines. And since this one is for October: get your regular mammograms. That is the actual point of all the pink.