Carrot Salad | Quick & Easy Recipe Ready In 5 Minutes

Turn your carrots into a cooling salad. Quick and easy recipe, takes 5 minutes, requires only 5 ingredients and can be served in 5 ways. Impress your family with this simple-looking carrot recipe. One of my little secrets to ageing slow…

Carrots can be consumed in many ways. For example, baked it into a carrot cake. Grilled with other veggies on a summer BBQ evening or turn it into carrot juice. They just taste great whether it is in a stew or soup, boiled or steamed, served fresh or cooked.

The Carrot salad recipe is one of my go-to sides when serving rice. Kids enjoy it too (when it is without the spice). I can easily put it together to complete a meal. The dish is colourful, healthy, flavourful to be served in other ways besides rice. Try flatbread!

With simple ingredients in your kitchen, you can too create this easy recipe in less than 5 minutes. Requires only 5 ingredients and can easily serve in 5 different meals.

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How It’s Made

with 5 ingredients, in 5 minutes

Honestly, this healthy carrot recipe is one of the easiest salads I’ve ever made. You can tell by the look of it that it doesn’t need complicated spices or difficult-to-find ingredients. Takes only 5 ingredients, ready within 5 minutes.

The five ingredients include the Thai green chillies, shallots, plain yogurt, black pepper powder and carrots. Salt is optional.

That’s all this salad requires.

The next main step is to cut and mix all the above ingredients in whichever order you like. It’s that easy.

Carrot Recipe Notes

• Shallots and the green chili can be optional but best to add for great taste result.
• Any green chili works fine but if you’re into the spicy heat flavour I’d recommend the Thai chili.
• Any onion type is fine too but I’d recommend the shallots for the best flavour results.
• You can replace yogurt with curd or mayonnaise for a quick fix.
• Adding salt is optional. This recipe tastes best as is.

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Did you know?

Carrot is not only good for your health but also great for your beauty as well. To name a few, They have the ability to provide luscious shiny thick hair growth.

Our body has the ability to turn beta carotene in carrots into vitamin A. Which means firmer skin. With less visible wrinkles and tighter skin, we can look a few years younger than our age.

For dry skin as well as oily skin can also benefit from carrots. It keeps our skin hydrated.

Did you know your skin can glow brighter due to the orange colour of the carrots? I’ve also learned that carrot reduces the appearance of blemishes and even scars too. Pretty cool!

This super veggie can do all this and more to help slow down ageing, keeping you looking much younger and healthier. Even with all these benefits, don’t get too carried away consuming too many carrots.

Excessive intake of this vegetable may cause temporary skin colour change. This means your skin may turn a slightly yellow or orange colour for a short period of time.

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5 Carrot Facts

• The colour of the carrots we commonly use comes in orange, but carrots also come in shades of purple, white, red and even yellow. That’s pretty cool! Although most grocery stores carry the orange, the local stores and farmers’ markets will carry other colourful varieties.

• Did you know carrots can be purchased all year round?

• Carrots contain a little over 80% of water. It’s loaded with fibre, various minerals and vitamins too. This balanced nutrition helps keep us healthy and builds a strong immune system to protect ourselves from other germs.

• Carrots can help protect against high blood pressure, heart diseases, control diabetes, helps protect against vision damages, improve healthy skin and much more.

• I recently found out that carrots were first used as assortments of medicinal ailments. However, carrots are now can be used in so many culinary creations. Some of which are the baked carrot cakes, grilled veggies or turn them into a cooling salad.

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Serving Styles of this carrot recipe

5 ways to serve as a side dish

• Thali – Thali refers to the metal plate the meal is served on. A complete meal consists of six different flavours; sweet, salt, spice, bitter, sour and astringent.
• Biriyani – The rice comes in various kinds of flavours. Each cooking method varies from place to place. Typically, biriyani is made with meat, potatoes and Indian spices.
• Ghee rice – Rice cooked in ghee, coconut milk, aromatic herbs and Indian spices.
• Rice & curry – Rice served with various curries, side dishes and condiments.
• Naan – It’s an oven-baked flatbread. Served naan with a side dish. Great for kids meal ideas.

Carrots can be served in many ways both fresh or cooked. I have tasted carrots mostly as a side to these above meals.

The most famous style of serving this carrot salad is with biriyani of course! The yogurt in the salad helps cool things down when the meal is served spicy and steamy.

Thali usually comes with curd as one of the sides. Instead of serving the typical curd, add carrots to change it up. Makes the meal more colourful.

As with adding it as part of rice and curry meal. A Rice and curry meal consists of more than just curries to the rice. Adding colourful variety is one way to bring your rice and curry to life! So turn your boring carrots into a cooling salad.

This salad is great with flatbreads too. Naan for example. Garlic naan always wins the crowd. Best for kids lunch meals too. Remember to omit the green chili and/or the shallots when making it for kids.

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