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RECIPE: CARROT ORANGE SALAD
Carrot Orange Salad is a super tasty salad bursting with flavours. With a homemade salad dressing, it sure is a refreshing salad.
I love the combination of carrot and orange in muffins and smoothies. So why would a salad with those two ingredients be any different? What I love about salads is that there is no restriction to the ingredients one can add. Make a combination that you love.
Serve this salad as a light meal, as a side dish, for parties, take it along for picnics, etc.
Make Salads Appealing
Make Salads appealing to both adults and kids:
- Add their favourite ingredient like a fruit, seeds,herbs, nuts.
- Make it colourful, must be visually attractive.
- Must be fresh. All your ingredients should be fresh. Limp veggies and fruits are a put off.
- Use a good quality dressing or make it at home.
- Add meat, cheese, beans, grains to make it filling.
- If the vegetables have to be cooked, try a different cooking method other than steaming or boiling. Roasting vegetables adds so much flavour.
- Adding a note of sweetness makes any salad appealing.. use dried fruits, honey, maple syrup, etc.
- Don’t over dress a salad.
Vinaigrette Rule
A vinaigrette is a mixture of an acidic ingredient with oil. Salad Dressings on the other hand are more like sauces. But, vinaigrette is still a type of dressing. Confusing right! It is like we have rice and then there is black rice. Rice is a family, black rice a type of rice. Same goes with vinaigrette.
A classic vinaigrette is oil, and acidic ingredient, salt and pepper. Sometimes a sweetener is added. Did you know that for any vinaigrette usually the ratio is 3:1. Three parts oil to one part an acidic ingredient like vinegar, lemon or lime juice.
With vinaigrette it is so easy to make a variety other than the classic one. Add herbs, juices, alcohol, spices and you get a different tasting vinaigrette.
To go with my carrot orange salad, I make an Orange Vinaigrette at home, using fresh orange juice.
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First Published on 23/03/2013. Updated on 17/09/2021
INGREDIENTS REQUIRED FOR CARROT ORANGE SALAD
- Carrot – peel and slice it or chop it.
- Orange – peel and cut into bite size pieces. Also need one for the juice.
- Orange Peel – grate it or cut into extra thin strips. For the salad dressing.
- Cucumber – if the peel of the cucumber is tender, then you don’t need to peel the cucumber. Cut into slices, or dice it.
- Red Radish – cut into slices or dice them.
- Red Onion – small one, sliced thinly or chopped finely.
- Lettuce Leaves – a few any of your choice.
- Fresh Mint – or add any fresh herb of your choice. Dill, coriander goes well with the salad.
- Olive Oil – for the salad dressing.
- Vinegar or Lemon Juice – for the salad dressing. If you are using vinegar, use good quality vinegar.
- Maple Syrup/Honey – or use a sweetener of your choice like sugar or jaggery.
- Fennel Seeds – lightly roast them in a wide pan over low heat.
- Sesame Seeds – lightly roast them in a wide pan over low heat.
- Walnuts – or any nuts of your choice.
- Raisins – or sultanas, cranberries, etc. Any dry fruit of your choice.
- Salt – for the salad dressing.
- Pepper – for the salad dressing.
CARROT ORANGE SALAD
Ingredients
- 1 large carrot peeled and sliced
- 2 large oranges peeled and sliced
- ¼ cup red onion thinly sliced
- 1 medium cucumber sliced
- 6 pieces red radish thinly sliced
- 1 cup salad leaves
- 1 tsp fennel seeds lightly roasted
- 1 tsp sesame seeds lightly roasted
- 1 tsp thinly cut orange peel
- 10 walnuts cut into pieces
- 10 raisins
Orange Vinaigrette:
Makes ¼ Cup
- 3 tbsp fresh orange juice
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp maple syrup/honey
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp coarse pepper powder
- 1 tsp orange peel cut into very thin strips or grated
Instructions
- Peel the oranges. Save a small strip of the peel to cut into thin strips to add to the salad.
- Remove the white part of the orange and seeds and cut into segments.
- Mix the orange, carrot, onion and lettuce in a big bowl. Keep it in the fridge till required.
- Roast the sesame and fennel seeds lightly. When it cools down add to the salad.
- Mix all the ingredients of the dressing very well and pour over the salad just before serving.
Notes
- I usually put all the ingredients for the dressing in a jar and give it a good shake.
- Can lightly crush the fennel seeds if you like.
- Grate the orange peel instead of cutting into strips.
- For a nice crunchy salad, leave the lettuce leaves in ice cold water for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the water and pat them dry with a kitchen towel.
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