After all trials from the roundups, (WBB and festive food fair), I feel I need a break from the high calorie, but delicious, feasts. If you feel the same way, this is for you. And whenever I am late to get up in the mornings, and when my stove top is so engaged, I call salads for rescue. I learnt a bunch of salad recipes from Isha Yoga classes and they are my treasured recipes as they are so healthy and more palatable than the salads I eat here in US. Now to the versatile salad..
Carrots-1 or 2 numbers. Skin and dice them into small cubes.
Iceberg Lettuce- 1/2 . Chop into fine strips.
Dry roasted peanuts- 1/2 cup
Cucumber- 1 number- skinned , cored and diced into cubes.
Tomato- 1/2 . Cored and diced into cubes.
Lime juice- 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dall, dry chillies and curry leaves – for seasoning/thallipu/thallidam
Mix all the vegetables and peanuts in a bowl with adequate salt. Leave them for 15 minutes. The salt would have done its mischeif, all water content from the vegetables would have separated. Strain the vegetables but don’t throw away the juice, it is great for a cocktail. Now add lime juice and mix again.
In a pan, heat oil, sputter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dall, dry chillies and curry leaves in the order said. Remove from heat and add to the salad mix. Serve with cilantro garnishing. The chewy carrots, juicy tomato and cucumber, crunchy lettuce and the roasted nuts will entertain your taste buds , and you will say good bye to your stove top.
Added on Dec 8th 2006 :
Thank you friends for the appreciation,
Try the salad and let me know. I learnt the carving from here and here. I hope you will it find as a wonderful site for Thai carving.
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Hi
salad looks wonderful
will try it out
did u carve those flowers looks cool
nice carving
Beautiful presentation, LA. It just very soothing to the eye and I bet for the stomach too:)
Thank you for that.
This is such a great recipe – healthy and great tasting. Thanks for sharing.
Sangeeta
Very nice presentation. Thanks for sharing. Viji
Hi,
Wow!!!!! nice carving of leaves and flowers. Please blog about these also.. Healthy salad. Thanks for sharing.
wow lakshmi ammal
decoration is so good.nice recipe…
the salad looks so beautiful, nice presentation lakshmi
Hi Lakshmi,
The salad looks really yummy, and the carrot flowers and leaves are just splendid !! Will surely try this one out soon 🙂
Wow Lakshmiammal,those flowers and leaves are simply gorgeous!They look so neat and professionally done.COngrats to you!Salad looks nice.I love salads which have an indian flavour to it.Thanks for sharing.:)
Wow you did it so well, i am so impressed. Thank you for providing those useful links too.
Beautiful looking salad…! Very creative.
Very pretty and creative presentation.
Recipe looks tasty will definately try out. Excellent job!!!!!!
Great presentation!
Hello Lakshmi,
The salad looks so wonderful with such a beautiful presentation. Thanks for sharing
Best Regards
Sushma
Hi friends,
I went on a diet and so I made the salad little attractive to keep up my spirits.Thanks for your appreciation.
thank u for sharing this wonderful recipe. it would be great if u share all the other salad recipes u learnt from Isha yoga class. it will be really helpful for people who r on diet.
Sure Preetha,
I do like to share all the salad recipes. Do come back , you will not be disappointed.
thanks a lot…….will look forward for it…..
A nice recpe idea you have here. I am always looking for more ideas to keep the kids entertained with and this one might just do the trick so thank you for sharing it.