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Me and My dad frequently visit MTR at Bangalore. The first dish they serve is grape juice and next is this carrot kosambari. Eating Raw carrot is very hard for me, this carrot salad made it easy. i love the moong dal in it and lime juice sprayed over the salad makes me crave for one more serving. so here is my favourite MTR Carrot Kosambari.

Ingredients:

Carrots - 4
Moong Dal - 1/4 cup (5 tbsp's)
Shredded Coconut - 3 tbsp's
Corriander Leaves - 3 tbsp's (finely chopped)
Lime Juice - 1 tbsp

For Tadka/Seasoning:

Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard - 1 tsp
Split Urad Dal - 1 tsp
Green Chilli - 2 (finely chopped)
Curry Leaves - 6

Method:

Soak the 1/4 cup Moong Dal in 1 cup of water for about 1 hour.

Peel off the outer skin of the carrots and Grate the carrots & place them in a bowl.

Mix the shredded coconut with the grated carrot in the bowl.

Add Soaked Moong Dal to the Carrot bowl.

Mix well with a spoon.

Heat a small Tadka Pan for Seasoning,
Heat 1 tsp Oil,
add Mustard and let in jump,
add urad dal and let it get roasted,
add finely chopped green chilli's and
add curry leaves.

Now Transfer the seasoning / Tadka to the carrot bowl.

Mix well the contents in the carrot bowl.

Add Lime Juice to the bowl and mix.

Add required salt and Chopped Corriander Leaves to the bowl and mix well.

Serve it Instantly Fresh..

Enjoy & Have a Great Weekend!!

Today, I prepared these absolutely yummy, healthy salad for Lunch. It was finished, just like that. We both loved it. The original recipe call's for Lettuce. You can add Lettuce to make it more colourfull and healthier. To be Frank, I did not like the taste of Tofu in this salad. If it is fried and used, might have given a different texture, and nice crunchy taste. But healthiest things should be eaten without any hesitation.

If you wish, you could add powdered Pepper, to make it little spicy. Sugar will also be a nice get along ingredient for this salad.

Now this salad is boarding on for Vaishali's Its Vegan World-Mexican
Thank You Vaishali. This event really hooked me into salad's. I will be preparing more salad's from now on.

Reminder for RCI-Lucknow:

Just 6 more days for the event to get closed. so start sending in your entrie's. For more on Event Announcement and idea's, check here.

Mexican Tomato Salsa and Mexican Pizza are my stepping stone's on to Mexican Cuisine. Mexican Omlette was the only thing i used to do previously. even i could say it made me to put up more weight.

Here Comes the,

Mexican Tomato Salsa:

Ingredients for Mexican Tomato Salsa:

1. Tomatoes- 2(de-seeded and cutted into small cube shape's)
2. Red Onion-1(Small Onion cutted into small small pieces)
3. Green Chilli-1(diced finely)
4. Corriander leaves(cutted into small pieces)
5. Salt- To taste
6. Lime Juice- 1 Table spoon

Mix all the above Ingredients along with a spoon of olive oil. So Simple Mexican Tomato Salsa is Ready.
I Got this Salsa Recipe From Here

Mexican Pizza:

I just applied olive oil on the ready-made pizza base, I applied a coating of cheese and spreaded the Simple Mexican Tomato Salsa and i grated the Mozarella cheese over it. I added a little red chilli flakes over the pizza and sprinkled some oregano over it. also little salt.

Just made this pizza on Dosa Tava within 5 minutes.
It was so tasty. this is the first time i added the raw tomatoes and onions as the topping to pizza.. usually i fry onions and tomatoes along with panneer as topping's. or i just fry all the available veggie's with me as topping.
it was so tasty to have it raw along with cheese.

A piece of Mexican Pizza with Tomato Salsa as a Topping... I just Fried the sliced Capsicum's in a spoon of olive oil before placing on top.

This recipe is one among which i learned from my neighbour..when we were in bangalore. she just made this in minutes..were i kept gazing at her surprisingly..how she could chop the vegetables so fast.(since iam very slow in it).

Ingredients:

1. Cucumber-1(peeled and chopped into small slices)
2.Red Onion-1(chopped very finely)
3.Green chilli-1(chopped finely)
4.Cilanto/Corriander leaves-fistfull(chopped finely)
5.Grated Coconut- 4 spoons
6.Lemon Juice-as you require
7.Salt-as per your taste

Method:
Mix the above all ingredients in the level of order i have mentioned. add lemon juice and salt just before serving. You can also have this as a side-dish for sambhar rice.

In front of our school..some ladies will be selling cucumber with chilli powder and salt. It would taste so good..No five star hotel salad's could get near them.