House & Home - Ask a Chef: Kohlrabi Salad

Ingredients

• 12 shiitake mushrooms, stems discarded, tops halved
• 2 tbsp canola oil
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 heads red oak-leaf lettuce, cut into 2″ strips, washed (approx. 6 cups)
• 1 head kohlrabi, peeled, quartered, shaved very thin on mandolin (approx. 11⁄2 cups)
• 1 small head fennel, halved, cored, shaved thin on mandolin (approx. 1 cup)
• 1⁄4 cup Evalon cheese or goat’s milk Gouda, shaved
• 2 tbsp mint, torn into small pieces
• 1⁄4 cup niçoise olives, finely chopped
• 1 small butternut squash, skinned, seeded, flesh peeled into shavings (approx. 1 cup)
• 1⁄4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
• 1 pear, shaved on mandoline (approx. 3⁄4 cup)