Carrot Salad with Cardamom, Ginger & Lemon

Name: Carrot Salad with Cardamom, Ginger & Lemon
Yield: Serves 6 as a Side dish
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: a small handful of mint leaves, to serve; juice of 2 lemons; ½ red onion, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon ground cardamom; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) carrots; 3 cm (1¼ inch) piece of ginger, finely chopped or grated; a pinch of white pepper; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 teaspoons salt; 150 ml (5 fl oz) olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
6
as a Side dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Falling Cloudberries

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2004

About

I tasted this at the house of my mother’s friend, Iria. She is Finnish, but she picked up the recipe in India and it is certainly a salad that works well with spicy food. Make sure you use very fresh, young sweet carrots.

Ingredients

1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) carrots
½

India
Side dish
Vegan
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Put the carrots in a blender and pulse into small pieces (not too fine as you need to keep some texture). Transfer to a bowl, add the onion and mix together well.

To make the dressing, whisk together the lemon juice, oil, salt, sugar, white pepper, ginger and cardamom. Add to the carrots and onion, toss well and then leave in the cold for a few hours. Toss through a few mint leaves befo