Spinach Cucumber Peanuts Salad
Today, I made spinach cucumber peanuts salad. Mom buys lot of Tamil magazines and the special issues usually come with a recipe booklet. She collects them all and I got the salad recipe from one of the booklets. We should actually use boiled peanuts (raw peanuts boiled in salted water) for this salad but since I did not have raw peanuts at home, I used roasted peanuts. The salad was excellent but I am sure it will taste even better with boiled peanuts.
2 cups of spinach, finely chopped
1 cucumber, chopped
1 tomato, deseeded and chopped
2 tbsps roasted peanuts
For the dressing - juice of 1/2 lime, salt, pepper, 1/4 tsp jeera powder, 1/4 tsp amchur powder
Blanch spinach. Drain and cool. Meanwhile, cut cucumber and tomato into small pieces and mix in a bowl. Add the roasted peanuts and spinach. Add all the ingredients for the dressing to this and mix well. Serve chilled.
Sprouts Salad
Another salad I make frequently is the sprouts salad. The main ingredient is the sprout (duh!) and I change the other ingredients depending on what is available at home. The last time I made it, I used the below ingredients-
1 cup Green sprouts
1/2 cup Frozen Green peas
1/2 cup Frozen Corn
1 Green apple, chopped
1 Cucumber, chopped
For the dressing - juice of 1 lime, olive oil, salt and pepper
Blanch sprouts in hot water for 2 minutes. Blanch peas and corn in hot water for 3-4 minutes. Drain and cool. Add chopped green apple and cucumber to this. Add the ingredients of the dressing and mix well. Serve chilled. Whenever I feel like snacking, I eat this salad and thus try to control my diet.
Variations: 1) Indulge yourself once in a way by tossing in some sev/bhujia.
2) Add pomegranate seeds.
