Name: Carrot Salad (Morkova Salata)
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Macedonian
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice; 8–10 carrots, peeled and grated; 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; ½ teaspoon lemon zest; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; ½ garlic clove, finely grated or minced; ¼ cup (30 g) chopped walnuts; ¼ cup (40 g) raisins; ¼ cup (60 ml) plain full-fat Balkan yogurt (or any plain full-fat yogurt)

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Macedonia

By Katerina Nitsou

Published 2021

About

This was the first salad I can remember eating. My father would make it for my sister and me when we were kids, and we would get so excited when he’d let us help grate the carrots.