Thursday, March 10, 2011

CARROT SALAD - DAY 7

Welcome to my cookbook Cookerypoint - Ila's Kitchen. Its my final day in Blogging Marathon. I want to give a simple,yummy and quick salad. Here is Carrot salad. It is wonderful crunchy salad with nutty flavored and yummy taste. It is very refreshing and suitable for very light snack in evening. I used almonds here but your own choice of nuts can be used. So lets move on to our salad...



CRUNCHY CARROT SALAD
Ingredients:

Carrots - 4 no (Grated)
Coriander leaves - 2 tbspn (Finely chopped)
Fresh red chilli - 1 no (Finely chopped)
Flaked almonds - 2 tbspn
Salad leaves - 1 bunch

For dressing:

Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 3 tbspn
Lemon juice - 1/4 (Squeeze juice)
Fresh ginger - 2 inch (Grated finely)
salt as required
Pepper as required

Preparation:

Prepare dressing by gently whisking lemon juice with olive oil.
Add grated ginger,salt,pepper and mix well and dressing is ready.
Grate the carrot in processor or grater.
Now add redchilli and coriander leaves and mix well.
Now pour the dressing and mix well.
Dry roast the flaked almonds and add to salad.
Gently mix the salad and serve with salad leaves.

YUMMY CARROT SALAD
Serving Suggestion:

This crunchy Carrot Salad can be served for evening snacks.

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 Divya Vikram


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13 comments:

harini-jaya said...

flavorful indeed! I can eat carrot salad anytime!

Reshmi Mahesh said...

Carrot salad looks yummy...and dressing used is very simple and adds special boost to carrot.

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Unknown said...

Lovely collection of salads all week, Ila :)

divya said...

looks very healthy and delicious..

Priya Suresh said...

Would love to have this salad for my dinner..

Pushpa said...

Yummy and healthy salad.

Usha said...

That is an healthy Salad and I make something similar but more indianized, using Indian spices.

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SouthindianHome said...

Colorful and healthy salad

Pavani said...

Carrot salad looks colorful and delicious. It was fun running the marathon with you Ila. Hope to do it again very soon. Enjoy your weekend.

Ila said...

Thanks all :) Thanks kirthi for award :)

aipi said...

Lovely..liked your dressing!


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Rumana Rawat said...

This is lovely salad yaar.. and u have a good looking blog:)
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