Quick and dirty carrot and kale harissa flatbread

There's a brilliant salad - I think it's in  Jerusalem - made with thin carrot batons, leaves, and a fuck-tonne of harissa paste. It's piquant and delightful, and I've blogged about it before. It's the haissa set against the carrot sweetness that makes it - I could eat that stuff until my gastric tract writes an angry letter to my MP.Basically, harissa is the creature's proverbials.So when I was short on time, but craving vegetables, the idea occurred to crash that salad into the kale pizza, and stick it on a flatbread:Carrot and kale harissa flatbreadThis was not an unequivocal success, but if you buy the flatbread it does only take about twenty minutes.As a work in progress, I won't pretend to give a recipe. This is rather some notes to give you an idea, and for me to come back to.Thinly slice an onion and a large carrot, chop some garlic and a tomato, wash and shred some kale. Fry the onion a bit, then add the carrot, later the garlic and cumin seeds, paprika, and allspice.The kale goes in to soften a little and fry, then you hit it with the tomato, nice and hot. Stir and add loads of harissa, plus maybe a splash of water. Cook it out, and gently drive off the moisture.Carrot and kale harissa flatbreadSmear some harissa over the flatbread, then heap on the veg mix and bake it off until the kale crisps a little at the edges.It's pizza-ish, but juicy. The kale retains its body and works next to the sweetness of the carrot. Basically, it succeeds in being a dirty fast-food-ish debasement of a fine fine salad. 

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