Simple healthy salad to cool you up, great for lunch box, travel and parties. Just a little prep work and you will have a tasty salad to pack on a busy weekday.
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| Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 1 long or 1 cup (diced) | English seedless cucumber (6″) |
| 1/2 cup diced | Carrot |
| 1/4 cup diced | Onion (red) |
| 1/2 cup | Chickpeas (fully cooked) |
| 3 teaspoons (chopped) | Coriander leaves |
| 1/2 teaspoon | Red wine garlic vinaigrette or Lemon juice |
| 2 teaspoons | Olive oil |
| 1/4 teaspoon | Salt |
| 1/4 teaspoon | Ground black pepper |
- Soak (1/4 cup) dry chickpeas overnight, wash, drain and pressure cook with 1 cup of water.
- Drain the liquid and separate the cooked peas.
- Combine olive oil, red wine vinaigrette, salt and pepper.
- Whisk to blend well and keep aside.
- In a large bowl, combine diced cucumbers, diced carrots, diced onion, cooked chickpeas and coriander leaves.
- Slowly add the vinaigrette dressing and toss the salad for couple of times.
- Serve at room temperature on a warm toasted bread or as a side.
- Serve at room temperature or refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Use a teaspoon of lemon juice + pinch of sugar, if you cannot fine red wine vinaigrette.
- If carrying this for lunch box then take the vinaigrette in a separate box and mix when ready to eat!
- Yield: Serves 2 approx.
18 Comments
Ma’am done with Carrot-Cucumber Salad…Really superb and fabulous taste…Thanx for ur salad receipe…
hi abhi , sonamasoori is raw rice u can use it for venpongal , adai, etc
Thank you Aruna for your reply. Namma pacharisi yaa.. ok..
Hello Mullai,
i tried this yesterday evening.
it came out very well.
simple but it was tasty.
we all liked it a lot.
thankyou so much for sharing all these recipes.
Thiya
Mullai ma'am, Love this salad. But i have a question, onion and cucumber munnadiyee mix pannina watery ah ayidatha ? BTW, red wine flavour ku add panroma ? Never tried any salad in my life-time also never tasted…Would like to try this for a gettogether…
Shan, salads are always good when fresh and refridgeration is just an option here. Red wine vinaigrette is just like a dressing.. or condiment to give the citrus garlic flavour and is not a must, use fresh lemon juice instead.
Thanx for your reply ma’am…take care
Mullai,
What dishes are tastes good in sona masoori rice. I usually get basmathi rice, rawrice and idly rice. This time I got sona masoori rice, but I dont know for what it is used..
It is like raw rice or is it parboiled rice? Can you please help me. Thanks!
Abimuthu, you can use sona masoori for everyday cooking…It is Paacharisi…
Thank you Shan. I did not know that.
Mullai,
I could not wait to soak the chick peas and wanted to try ASAP, so tried with Canned Garabanzo beans, everything else remains the same. It was ” SO SO SO SO “….Good.
Thanks.
Jaya
I am in a real mood to cook, so I am also going to try Rajma Masala and Chappathi with Aruna’s CFC too.. ( My drumsticks are getting soaked for dinner)
Mullai…..You are the best!!!!
very nice and healthy salad thanks mullai.
One gneral doubt can we use the coffee grinder to grinder the wet items like chutney and masalas?
Rajeswari, coffee grinder should only be used for grinding dry items like podis and powders. Once you are done with grinding, wash the lid and let it dry and clean the inner cup of the mixie with a paper towel. All wet items should either go in the blender or Indian style mixie. Hope this helps and thanks for your comment.
Thank you very much for your advice. I really appreciate your consideration.
Mullai
Wonderful healthy salad, good for party/get together’s even to have it plain. How come you come up each day with wonderful and superb ideas ? Many thanks
Jaya
looks very healthy…
Everyday you are inspiring with newest receipes….This is possible only for you…u’re a hardworking and a dedicated person…Thanx for your receipe