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Crunchy snack A green salad
Make a salad for a snack, a meal or for dessert and crunch away.
Spicy Mexican salad
Ingredients:
Boiled sweet corn kernels: 1 cup
Boiled red kidney beans (rajma): 1 cup
Small onion, cut fine: 1
Green capsicum, cut fine: 1
Chicken sausages, cut small: 6
Crushed tortilla chips, a handful
Dressing:
Chilli sauce: 2 tsp
Tomato ketchup: 1 tsp
Lemon juice: 1 tsp
Fresh red chilli, cut into thin slivers: 1
Salt: a pinch
Method:
Place the corn, kidney beans, onion, capsicum and sausages in a bowl. Toss lightly to mix. For the dressing, mix together the chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, lemon juice, red chilli and salt in a small bowl. Just before serving, spoon the dressing over the salad and toss well to mix. Serve sprinkled with crushed tortilla chips.
Carrot salad with raisins, nuts and sour cream
Ingredients:
Large carrots: 4
Seedless raisins: 1/2 cup
Coarsely crushed peanuts: 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Black peppercorns, freshly crushed: 5-6
Grated lemon rind: 2 tsp
Lemon juice: 1 tsp
Sour cream: 1 cup
(Whisk 1 tablespoon of lemon juice into 1 cup of fresh cream. Add salt to taste. Use immediately)
Method:
Place the carrots on ice for one hour. Grate them coarsely into a bowl. Add the raisins and peanuts and mix lightly.
Sprinkle salt, peppercorns, lemon rind and lemon juice over the ingredients. Toss once or twice to mix.
Pour the sour cream over and serve immediately.
Chilled melon ball salad
Ingredients:
Watermelon: 1/4
Muskmelon (medium): 1
Salad dressing
Lemon juice: 1 1/2 tsp
Orange juice: 2 tsp
Peppercorns crushed: 3-4
Roughly torn fresh mint leaves: 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Black salt to taste
Method:
Using a Parisienne scoop (melon baller), scoop out small balls from the watermelon and muskmelon. Discard all seeds. Place melon balls in a refrigerator to chill thoroughly.
Mix together all the ingredients for the dressing. Pour over the melon balls and toss gently once or twice to mix. Spoon into the melon shells and serve immediately.
(Courtesy: Sanjeev Kapoor’s Salads)
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