Salad recipes

R · 14th February 2005, 05:16 PM

Another tasty salad recipe, try it out!

Boiled macaroni - 1 cup
Boiled potatoes (diced) - 1 cup
Diced cucumber - 1/2 cup
Diced tomatoes (blanched and deseeded) - 1/2 cup
Very finely chopped green chillies - According to taste
Chopped lettuce leaves - 1 cup
Hung curd - 1 and a 1/2 cup
Finely chopped garlic - 1 pod
Finely chopped capsicum - 1/4 cup
Mustard powder - 1/4 tsp
Honey-1 tbsp optl.

Method

In a bowl, whip up the hung curd along with the crushed garlic, green chillies, salt and mustard powder.

Mix the remaining ingredients in a salad bowl. Sprinkle a little salt. Pour in the dressing over it and mix lightly. Drizzle the honey on top

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pr · 14th February 2005, 11:09 PM

Dear friends
Can we discuss about soups also in this thread . It will be very nice if you post some recipes for soups ..
Thanks

**khushi** · 14th February 2005, 11:37 PM

R,
You have mentioned milagu in tomato cups recipes? What is milagu in English? Please let me know.

**khushi** · 14th February 2005, 11:38 PM

Hi pr,
I agree with you, we should start talking about Soups too.

R · 14th February 2005, 11:49 PM

Sorry, Khushi. Milagu is pepper in English.

R · 18th February 2005, 03:37 AM

Hi,

I saw sweet potato salad recipe in TV and modified a bit. Here it is-

sweet potato salad

Sweet potato 1, onion 1 small size, tomato 1 small, green chillies or pepper powder, hung curd 1/2 cup, jeera powder, hing, salt.

Cut all veggies into small pieces. You can fry sweet potato in oil(no skin). But, I prefer to cook them in microwave becoz, in cooker, it will get so soft. After cooking, keep them open in the air so that it will get little harder and now, remove the skin.

I always prefer to use pepper powder than chillies since it is good for health too and the additional powders will help in digesting sweet potato.

Mix rest of the veggies and other ingredients well with sweet potato. Yummy salad is ready to eat.

**Badri** · 18th February 2005, 04:32 AM

I just had one question while reading the salad recipes - what on earth is hung curd?

Thanks

R · 18th February 2005, 05:15 AM

Hung curd means to pour the curd in a cloth and to hang for some time or keep in siever to drain the water completely so that you will get a solid curd. Hung curd salad is toally different from our regular raitha. Try and you will like it, guess!!

**Badri** · 18th February 2005, 06:36 AM

Thanks R.

Guess I would have to try it to see how much I can enjoy it. But just a thought, wouldn't it make the curd rather thick, and not a very good base for a salad? Wouldn't it be more like crumbled paneer or something?

Of course, with our all too familiar experience with curd, I am assuming it is going to be the base, and I could well be wrong in that.

Cheers

**Thattai** · 18th February 2005, 11:35 AM

Hi All,

This is an 'Indian' style salad that I hope you all will enjoy!

Spring Onion Salad:

Got the recipe for this from our Maharashtrian neighbour, and it is a big hit whenever I have served it to family and friends.

Spring Onions and greens, chopped – 1 cup (250 ml)
Cucumber, chopped – ½ cup
Peanuts, skinned, roasted and pounded – ¼ cup
Coconut, grated – ¼ cup
Green chillies, seeded and finely minced – to taste
Sugar – ¼ tsp
Salt – to taste
Lemon Juice – to taste

Method:
Combine all the ingredients, except the peanuts, salt and lemon juice. This can be done ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator. Just before serving, add the peanuts, salt and lemon juice, mix well and serve.

PS: The peanuts need to be pounded coarsely, and they need to be crunchy.

PPS: This can be served at room temperature as well, if assembled just before serving.