This is a salad I made to “treat” the head cold I had. Mizuna is a wonderful Japanese salad green that has a similar flavor to arugula–peppery, sharp, and sassy. I think it tends to be slightly more delicate in structure, though– maybe it’s because I’ve only eaten young mizuna. Anyway, it’s in the brassica family and is considered a mustard green. Perfect green for a head cold!
When you aren’t tossing your mizuna in a regular, refreshing salad during warm and healthy days, why not throw it into your Asian-inspired concoction that you made for dinner, and squirt a ton of hot pepper sauce over the top? This will set you free.
The concoction above contains:
- Mizuna
- Egg drop soup (chicken broth, tamari sauce, with egg beaten into it)
- Quinoa (I didn’t have time to make rice)
- Chicken stir fry with peas & tons of garlic and onions
- Hot pepper sauce
My family ate the stir fry as I had intended them to, over the quinoa, with the soup on the side. I, on the other hand, opted to pour them all together, mix in mizuna, and inundate the whole thing with hot sauce.
It seemed to help on all levels.