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Vegetarian Kapsalon recipe

I regularly eat a Kapsalon with both meat and vegan style. For my own homemade Kapsalon, i chose to do in vegetarian style. First I tell you in short what Kapsalon actually is, why they call Kapsalon and how it came into being a popular dish. Then i share my recipe Kapsalon.

Kapsalon is in Dutch a hairsalon/ hairdressing salon. What is actually Kapsalon? A Kapsalon is a dish consisting of fries covered with shawarma or doner, topped with cheese, put under the grill, so that the cheese melts, with salad on top. Often the Kapsalon is served with garlic sauce and sambal. Instead of shawarma, the Kapsalon is also prepared with kebab, doner, gyros, chicken or falafel.

Why do they call the Kapsalon and how did it come about? The dish was created in 2003 by Nataniel Gomes, the owner of a hairdressing salon on the Schiedamseweg in Rotterdam, at the shoarma store El Aviva, located a bit further away, had a lunch dish made up with all his favorite ingredients. It became a regular order, which was given the designation ‘hairdresser’. The dish became popular among young people and is available in many Dutch and Belgian snack bars and shoarma shops. The dish is also popular in Germany. Since 2011, the Golden Hair Salon Award has been awarded annually for the best hair salon in Rotterdam. A hair salon is very high-calorie. (info: Wikipedia)

Vegetarian Kapsalon recipe

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of sweet potato fries
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 cucumber
• 75 grams of lettuce melange
• 25 grams baby spinach (you can also use regular spinach)
• 50 grams of edamame
• 1 small can of corn granules  
• box of 160 grams vega chicken pieces from ‘ The Vegetarische Slager (the Vegetarian Butcher) or Vivera
• 1/4 finely chopped red cabbage
• 25 grams of freshly cut chives
• 5 spoons of yogurt. I myself have taken yogurt yogurt from Arla, but of course you can also use other types of yogurt
• 1 clove of freshly pressed garlic
• half teaspoon of salt
• a pinch of pepper
• sirarcha sauce. I like spicy myself. If you find it spicy, you can add yogurt to make it less spicy.
• 30 grams of fried onions (from a bag)

Preparation method:

1. Sweet potato fries or baking for 15 minutes or in a preheated oven on a baking tray with baking paper for 30 minutes. Do regularly turn around.
2. Cucumber and cut ends. Then peel thin slices of cucumber with a potato peeler.
3. clean red bell pepper, remove the seeds and cut the red bell pepper in thin slices.
4. peel cloves of garlic and put them in a garlic press. Then press into a bowl and add yogurt with salt. Add more yoghurt and / or salt to taste.
5. Clean the red cabbage and cut off the 1/4 part and then cut it.
6. Bake chicken pieces with salt and pepper.
7. When sweet potato fries and vega chicken pieces are ready, you will make a plate. First plate with lettuce melange, baby spinach, chopped red cabbage, baked sweet potato fries, picked vega chicken pieces, homemade garlic yoghurt and sriracha sauce over it, thin slices red bell pepper, edamame, corn, fried onions and finely chopped chives. Enjoy your meal!