Learn 3 Salad recipe for winter that you can prepare during winter.
How To Make Cheesy Salad Recipe ?
Start with our cheesy salad you may be thinking cheese in sattvic salad? yes and no ! add cheese, but not the dairy processed one but a homemade cashew cheese made with natural ingredients. Frist take 1/2 cup cashews and soak them for at least 6 hours. We must consume all nuts only after soaking them, soaking them makes them easier to digest add soaked cashews to a blender, add 1/2 small green chilly and 1/4 cup coconut milk now blend them all together until they from a smooth, paste like consistency.
Prepare our veggies, for this, take 1cup chopped broccoli 1cup fine and roundly chopped baby corn. If you don’t have baby corn you can use normal corn too first steam the broccoli and baby corn for 2-3 mins. After 2-3 mins, add red and yellow capsicum and 1 cup chopped yellow capsicum and steam them for another 2 mins adding capsicum later because capsicum steam early. After them to col for 1-2 mins.
Add the cashew cheese that you prepared to it. Add 1tsp rock salt and 1tsp dry oregano leaves , mix them all properly together, Our creamy cheesy salad recipe is ready.
Ingredients For Cheesy Salad
- 1/2 cup cashews, soaked
- 1/2 small green chilly
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 1 cup chopped broccoli
- 1 cup chopped baby corn
- 1cup red capsicum
- 1 cup yellow capsicum
- 1 tsp rock salt
- 1 tsp dried oregano
How To Make Sweet Potato Salad Recipe ?
Sweet potato salad, with the crunch of lettuce and the softness of sweet potato, and the tanginess of tomatoes, every bite of salad is special , this salad has 2 parts a tangy tomato dressing and its base.
Ingredients Sweet potato salad
- 1 medium sweet potato
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp rock salt
- 1/2 cup chopped broccoli
- 1/4 red capsicum
- 1/4 yellow capsicum
- 2 cup lettuce leaves
First prepare the base for that , need a medium sized sweet potato, you can cut from the middle and steam for 20 mins till it softens. when the sweet potato has finished steaming, keep it outside and allow t to cool, peel it and mash it with a fork top it with 1 tbs dry rosemary leaves and mix it.
The most fun part of this recipe, make small cubes using the sweet potato mix, you can make 10-12 cubes using your hands. Take a small bowl and add 1 tsp lemon juice to it 1/4 tsp black pepper, and 1/2 tsp rock salt, dip these cubes in this mixture properly one by one. Ensure lemon juice covers all sides of the cubes remove them and keep them on a plate.
If you’re preparing this salad in summers, you can use pumpkin instead of sweet potatoes too . Then add 1.5 cup chopped broccoli and steam it for 10 mins. Until the broccoli steams, take 1/4 red capsicum chop it in thin long slices. Similarly, take a yellow capsicum and cut it into thin, long take 2 cup lettuce leaves and remove big chunks of them with your hands.
Take a big bowl and add your lettuce, capsicum, broccoli, sweet potato cubes, add everything and mix it together our base is ready.
Tomato Chutney
To prepare the chutney, you’ll need 2 tomatoes remove their seeds and peels and keep them in the freezer just for 40 mins, take a mixer and add your frozen tomatoes to it.
Ingredients For Tomato Chutney –
- 2 cup frozen tomatoes peeled and seeded
- 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
- 1 tbs chopped red capsicum
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 chopped green chili
- 1/2 tsp rock salt and a pinch of black pepper
Blend all these ingredients together properly. We don’t have to blend the chutney too much or else it will turn out green and look good, blend it till it’s mildly coarse in texture and red in color. or tangy tomato chutney/our salsa is also ready.
Add it over all your vegetables. On top of it add 2 roasted and chopped almonds for extra crunch. If you want, you can use roasted peanuts or sesame seeds too, Our sweet potato salad is ready.
How To Make Beetroot Spinach Salad ?
Final salad beetroot spinach salad. this salad has 2 parts ,date coriander chutney and base.
Ingredients Sweet Potato Salad –
- 2 small beets
- 2 cup spinach
- 1 cup rocket leaves
First prepare the base ingredients for this, you’ll need 2 small beetroots which have been peeled and cut into small pieces, then allow them to steam and softens for 5 mins. While your beetroot is steaming, take 2 cups of thickly chopped spinach similarly, take 1 cup of any green leafy vegetable like amaranth, or rocket laves and cut it into thick pieces. transfer all these veggies into a big bowl.
Coriander Date Chutney
Prepare our sweet and sour coriander date chutney. Take a mixer and add 1/2 cup freshly chopped cucumber, for sweetness take 4 dates with their seeds removed 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves 1.5 tsp lemon juice and 1/4 tsp cumin powder blend this mixture until it’s smooth. Our chutney is ready.
Ingredients Coriander Date Chutney –
- 4 dates, seedless
- 1/2 cup freshly chopped cucumber
- 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
- 1.5 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp cumin powder
Add this chutney to all your veggies and add 1/4 cup chopped coconut kernel. Our sweet and sour beetroot spinach salad recipe is ready.
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