Ingredients
- Carrot
- potato
- egg-plant
- cauliflower
- broccoli
- zucchini
- cucumber
- shredded Coconut - 1/2 cup
- cumin seeds- 3/4 spoon
- Jalepeno pepper- 1 to 2
- Salt - 1 to 1.5 spoon
- Yoghurt- 1/2 to 1 cup
- vegetable oil - 1-2 spoon
Serves: 2-3.
Preparation time: 20 min.
Cut mixed vegetables. Small of amounts the vegetables mention above can be mixed and steamed or boiled (steaming is better). For quicker preparation frozen mixed vegetables can be boiled or steamed.
All the ingredients other than the vegetables are mixed together and ground in a blender (the dressing is now ready). The dressing is then mixed with steamed or boiled vegetables (discard the water used to boil the vegetables, before mixing).
The salad is ready.
The philosophy behind this type of cooking is the food thus prepared has all the taste and few taste dominate over other taste. For example, if you love hot food, then add more hot peppers, but still the food will taste sweet and sour due to the presence of coconut and yougurt.
Nutrition Information: Lots of Vitamin A and C plus fibre and calcium.
major source of fat- added vegetable oil, it is not necessary to add oil, if fat is a concern
Not a major souce of protein other than small amount got from yoghurt. Hence the food makes a good side dish along with bean soup plus rice or wheat based products.
Source: Traditional Asian Indian