Spicy Carrot Salad

"Here is another Moroccan salad dish from “The World of Spice”. Serve this with other salads I’ve posted (such as Lemon Salad, Orange and Olive Salad and Grilled Green Pepper and Tomato Salad) for an authentic set of appetisers. Recipe posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 30mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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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

  1. 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!
     
  2. Really good. I subbed fresh ginger and used 1/2 the cinnamon. Added a little cumin and extra lemon juice at the end.
     
  3. I liked this side, but my husband raved about it. It was easy and different. I will make again.
     
  4. I did like the sweet & spicy flavor of this salad. I cooked the carrots sliced and left them the tiniest bit crisp. I also reduced the cinnamon based on other reviews. Thank you for sharing your recipe Mrs B. !
     
  5. 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

  1. 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.
     

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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! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> 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.
 
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