Carrot and Cumin Salad
Recipe shared by Better Food Traders
Ingredients | Serves 4 | Cook 40 Mins
- Carrots
- 1tsp of cumin seeds
- 1 garlic clove
- 1/2tsp of salt
- 1 lemon
- Sugar
- Olive oil
- Chopped coriander.
Method
- Serve as a side dish or as part of a mezze or tapas.
- Steam your carrots – sliced thickly or whole if they are baby ones.
- Roast a teaspoon of cumin seeds and then pound them in a pestle and mortar or grinder
- Add a crushed garlic clove.
- Half a teaspoon of salt and grind some more.
- Mix in the juice of a lemon, half a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of olive oil.
- Toss the carrots in the dressing together with a handful of chopped coriander.
- Serve warm or cold.
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