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Showing posts with label salads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salads. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Salad with mustard oil seasoning

Salad with mustard oil seasoning

ingridients

sliced onion
1 finely chopped chili
salt to taste
1 tbs mustard oil

method:
mix all and serve it goes well with any dish :)

Simple Salad


ingridients
Slice
1 small onion or 1 cup
1 green chilli or 1 tsp
1 small tomato or 1 cup
1 cucumber or 1 cup
Salt per taste

Method:
mix all lightly

sufficient for 4

Cucumber salad!


Ingridients
7-8 cucumbers
3tomatos
4green chilli
2lemon
1 medium sized onion
Salt

Cut all of them into small pieces mix with tomato and green chilli And lemon !!!

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Coleslaw



Serves 6 people.
Preparation Time: 15 minutes.
Cooking Time: 15 minutes.

Ingredients

1\2 cup mayonnaise
1 1\2 cups cabbage, green shredded
1 carrot, shredded

Method

1. Combine cabbage and carrot in a bowl.

2. Add mayonnaise, stir with a wooden spoon to coat the vegetables.

3. Season with salt and pepper, if desired.

4. Cover and chill before serving.

5. Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep refrigerated.

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Tomato & pepper salads


Serves – 2
Ingredients
Tomatoes – 2 medium sized chopped finely
Chopped bell pepper – 1/2 cup(red, green and orange) into fine pieces
Onion – 1
Chopped cilantro – 1 tbsp
Lemon juice – 1/2 tsp if tomatoes are not sour
 salt – 1/2 tsp
Olive oil – 1 tsp
Freshly ground black pepper – 1 tsp or to taste
mayonise if needed
Method
1) Combine chopped tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, cilantro in a bowl.
2) To this add nu salt, lemon juice, olive oil and black pepper.
3) Toss to combine evenly and serve.

Carrot Salads

Ever wondered why Carrot is good for your eyes? It is because of the beta-carotene present in them. In addition to giving the carrot its name and orange color, it also converts to vitamin A in the body which helps improve vision. The Vitamin A forms a purple pigment called rhodopsin the eye needs to see in dim light. Rhodopsin production is spurred by vitamin A, raising the effectiveness of the light-sensitive area of the retina. Not getting enough vitamin A can actually lead to night blindness. The beta-carotene in carrots is an anti-oxident combating the free radicals that contribute to conditions like cancer, heart disease, and macular degeneration.
Even though carrots are so good, being a root vegetable and sweet in taste, be mindful of it if you are on a diabetic diet. For this salad, i added Nu Salt which is a salt substitute for sodium, so if you are on a low sodium diet this will be a perfect salad where the kind of awful taste of nu salt is offset with the sweet carrot and the lemon juice.

Ingredients
Carrots – 4
Onion – 1
Bell Pepper – 1/2
Nu Salt – 1 Tsp or to taste
Lemon Juice – 1 Tsp or to taste
Black Pepper – 1 Tsp
Tempering
Oil – 1 Tsp
Mustard seeds – 1/2 Tsp
Asafoetida powder – pinch
Method
1) Wash, peel and grate the carrots, chop the onion and bell pepper into fine pieces.
2) Add nu salt, lemon juice, black pepper to the vegetable mix.
3) Heat a pan, add a tsp of oil and once it is hot add the mustard seeds.
4) Once the mustard seeds stop spluttering, add the asafoetida powder and switch off the stove.
5) Transfer this to the vegetable mix, stir to combine and enjoy

Fruit & vegi salad









Ingredients

Pomegranate seeds - 1/2 cup

Carrot - 1

Cucumber - 1

Black Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp or to taste

Lemon juice - 1 tsp or to taste
Nusalt - 1/3 tsp or to taste
Chat Masala - 1/4 tsp

Method

1) Grate the carrots, chop the cucumber into small pieces.
2) Add the pomegranate seeds, nusalt, lemon juice, black pepper powder, chat masala to the
carrots & cucumber mixture.
3) Combine thoroughly and serve

Mixed Veg & Chickpeas Salad








Ingredients
Cucumber - 1 (Medium size, washed, peeled and cubed)
Tomato - 1 small chopped
Mixed bell peppers - 1 Cup(Red, yellow and green washed and cubed)
Salted & boiled chick peas - 1/2 Cup

Dressing

Greek yogurt or thick yogurt with excess water drained - 3/4 cup
Fresh parsley or cilantro - 1/2 cup (finely chopped, I just put them in my food processor with little bit of yogurt and blended till a coarse paste)
Lemon juice - 2 Tbsp or to taste
Salt - 1/2 tsp or to taste
Black pepper - 1/2 tsp to taste

Method

1) Stir together yogurt, parsley or cilantro(works wonder with yogurt dressing too), lemon juice, salt and pepper. If you like crushed garlic add 2 cloves but I didn't.

2) Toss the cucumbers, tomatoes, mixed peppers, chick peas and add dressing, tossing to coat.
Serve.