Friday 18 May 2012

Carrot & Cucumber Salad or kosumary



Today i prepared this Carrot & Cucumber Salad. Its easy to prepare and gets ready with in minutes.
My mom used to make it on all the festival days. You can eat it as it is or it goes well with sambar rice,Rasam rice,Curd Rice, or rotis. The Same you can see in my vegetarian thali.

Ingredients :-

Carrot - 1
Cucumber - 1
Green chillies -2
Curry leaves
Coriander Leaves
Moong Dal - 2 tsp(soak it in hot water for 10 to 15 min and drain water)
Lemon juice - 2 tsp
Coconut scraped - 3 tsp(optional)
Salt

For Seasoning:-

Mustard seeds -1 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Asafoetida- 2 pinch



Method:-

1. Peel the outer skin of carrots and cucumber
2. Grate the carrot and cucumber in a grater
3. Add salt and then lemon juice
4. Add curry leaves, coriander leaves and chillies,Coconut scraped,soaked moong dal.
5. Mix well
6. Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds and asafoetida
7. when it splutters switch off the stove  add it to already mixed salad and mix well.
8. Fresh salad is ready to eat.

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