Spicy Carrot Salad
photo by Sackville
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 18 ounces carrots
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- lemon juice, the equivalent of 1 lemon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 garlic clove, chopped and crushed with
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- chopped parsley, to garnish
directions
- Top and tail the carrots, scrub or scrape off the skin as required.
- Place whole carrots in a saucepan; cover with water, bring to the boil and cook for about 20 minutes until soft; leave them in their cooking water for 1 hour.
- When cool, strain the carrots and cut them into slices or chunks.
- Return carrots to the pan, cover with the rest of the ingredients, except the parsley, and heat for a few minutes to blend the flavours.
- Leave to cool, serve garnished with freshly chopped parsley.
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Reviews
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I like this recipe and I didn't even cook it! I had shredded about 7 large carrots with my food processor and need a recipe. I took all the other ingredients and mixed them together and poured it over the uncooked carrots. I did make a few changes to suit my tastes. 1) I used Chiptole Chile powder 2) I only used 1 Tbsp of oil 3) I added 1/3 cup of raisins. I can't wait to try the original version of this! Thanks Mrs.B!
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Very easy salad to make and a beautifully coloured dish for your table. Would be great as part of a mezze spread. These carrots have a unique flavour compared to most, almost floral in some ways. I just felt it was a touch unbalanced but nevertheless I would try it again, making a few more adjustments to give this a bit more punch. Maybe reverse the amounts of cinnamon and chili powder or cut down on the cinnamon and add more lemon juice.
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Tweaks
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I altered this slightly because I wanted a hot meal. Using four small carrots, one courgette and a couple of slices of red capsicum, I prepared them the same except for the cooling period. I substituted fresh ginger instead of ground, sweet chilli sauce instead of chilli powder (had no chilli powder) and canola oil as I had no olive oil. When cooked, I just put everything in a bowl and feeling a little decadent, sprinkled a little grated cheese on the finished product. Not bad! The cinamon gives it a lovely aroma.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.