Orange-gram salad

Serves 3
A unique combination of vegetable, fruit and cereal loaded with different flavors.
Tangy mandarins/oranges, pungent and spicy radish, sour lime , Crisp Lettuce, and wholesome sprouted black grams along with sweet honey make this salad my favorite.

2 oranges/mandarins
1 raddish
1 cup sprouted black grams
5-6 lettuce leaves torn
salt and pepper to taste
2 tsp powdered sugar/honey
2 tsp olive oil
1 tsp lime juice
5-6 mint leaves for garnishing

Boil the grams with little salt for 1 whistle in a pressure cooker. Drain the grams and allow to cool.
Lettuce can be kept in ice cold water for some time to make it crisper.
Peel and take out the segments from oranges.
Grate the radish and combine with orange, grams and lettuce.
Mix together lime juice, sugar/honey, olive oil, salt and pepper for the dressing and pour over the salad.
Toss lightly and garnish with fresh mint leaves.

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Stir Fried Garlic Beans

Stir Fried Vegetables are usually a favorite during cold evenings. They can be served as warm salad or as a side dish.

For this recipe the beans used must be fresh. These crunchy-garlicky beans are a good accompaniment for dal-chawal.

200g Fresh tender french beans

7-8 garlic cloves chopped

1 tbsp olive oil   

salt and pepper to taste

1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds

Boil the beans until half done. Strain and keep aside.

Heat olive oil and add garlic and saute for a min. 

Add the beans and again saute for 2 min.

Add the seasonings and sprinkle roasted sesame seeds.

Serve immediately. 

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Warm Carrot-basil salad

During winters, cold and cough is very common among children. Cucumber, tomatoes and most of the fruits have cooling tendency, I was wondering what should I give my child other than soup, as the doctor had asked me to avoid feeding any fruit(except chikoo and pomegranate) to my baby when she was suffering from cold.  So I came up with an idea of making a warm salad for her using carrots, basil, lemon and coriander,all  these ingredients are considered good for curing respiratory diseases.

2 carrots cut into strips
2 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped
6-7 basil/tulsi leaves,torn
1 tsp olive oil
1/2 tsp honey
1 tsp lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste

Microwave the carrots with 1 tsp water for 1 min.
Add all other ingredients to the carrots and toss.

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Garden Salad

1 cucumber or Zucchini

1 carrot

1/2 cup finely shredded cabbage

a few lettuce leaves, shredded roughly

3 red raddishes

for dressing:

1 tbsp lime juice

1 tbsp olive oil

1/2 tsp white pepper

a few springs parsely, finely chopped

1 tsp salt

To get the best results always choose the fresh & firm vegetables.

wash, wipe & cut the vegetables as you like. Mix all the ingrdients for dressing & pour over the salad just before serving. Toss lightly. Serve chilled.

ghar ki Rasoi Tip: For crispy Lettuce leaves put them in ice cold water for some time.