Meatless Monday Zucchini-Walnut Salad

During summer, I am ever on the sentry for newer ways of making salads. I came across this detail i a few months agone on i of my favorite websites, mindbodygreen.com, as well as after that offset fourth dimension I made it, it has been a regular inward my home. I was skeptical initially nearly eating raw zucchini, but it was a super-hit amongst everyone at home.

Source: mindbodygreen.com

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Zucchini: ii large
Spring onions: 2, chopped fine.
Cilantro: 6-8 springs, chopped
Walnuts: 1/2 cup, toasted
Craisins: 1 tbsp
Olive oil: iii tbsp
Lemon juice: from 1 lemon
Lemon zest: from 1 lemon
Sea salt:1/2 tsp
Black pepper: 1/4 tsp, freshly ground

Method:

Toast the walnuts until it leaves a faint odour as well as proceed aside. When cooled, crumple it into pocket-size pieces amongst your hands.

Using a regular peeler, shave the zucchini into sparse slices until you lot arrive at the seedy core. Discard the core. Put the shavings into the salad bowl.

Now add together all the other ingredients listed to a higher identify into the bowl. Mix well.

Top amongst crumpled toasted walnuts.

Serve immediately.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

This salad tends to larn soggy if non served immediately. If you lot intend to serve it at a afterward time, thence brand the marinade separately as well as proceed aside.Mix the marinade only earlier serving.

The zucchini nitty-gritty discarded to a higher identify tin survive used inward dishes similar sambar.

Walnuts tin survive toasted inward the microwave yesteryear placing inward a microwave-safe bowl as well as heating for 1 minute. You tin increase the fourth dimension gradually inward thirty s increments until done. Then chop it approximately using your manus or a knife.

Tip for good for you lot living:

Yogurt is a smashing agency to larn relief from sunburn. Just apply it to the affected expanse for 15-20 minutes as well as launder the expanse amongst mutual depression temperature water.

Food for thought:

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