Kumquat Salad

Ingredients:

Smoke Chicken Leg

Fresh Kumquat

Turnip

Celery

Dressing (Vinegar,Vegetable Oil,Salt,Orange juice)

Kumquat 金柑 is ever green shrub with very small fruits and leaves. They look like Bonsai盆栽. They are widely grown in China, Taiwan, Japan, and other Asian countries. The fruits can be eaten from January to April. Kumquat has a lot of seeds and the fruit is tastes sour. Usually eaten with peel which is sweet and tangy. Fresh kumquat peel has been eaten to help stop coughing and also to prevent catching cold. Japanese new year's feast "Osechi お節料理" must include kumquat. Kumquat symbolize good fortune so Chinese people love to grow them in their garden.