Meatless Monday Cucumber Corn Salad

Making salads alongside cucumber is i of my favorites. It makes a dandy accompaniment to diverse rice dishes similar pulao, biryani, puliyogre( tamarind rice), lemon rice etc. Cucumber is also really versatile. You could chop it, die it, grate it, peel it .. The options are many. It easily compliments virtually other veggies role inward a salad. My intent when I took the lonely cucumber out from the fridge was to brand a regular cucumber onion salad. Then I came across one-half a pack of corn inward the freezer which I wanted to piece of employment rid of. I decided to role it inward the salad. The halt outcome was delicious, crisp salad. My boy did non stimulate got the patience to expect for me to accept a picture! :)

Servings: 3

Ingredients:

Cucumber: 1 medium, washed as well as diced.
Whole Corn kernels : 1 loving cup (fresh, canned, frozen)
Onion: 1 small, chopped.
Spring onion/ dark-green onion: 2, chopped
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Lemon zest: 1 tsp
Extra virgin olive oil: iii tbsp
Cilantro: 1 tbsp, chopped
Salt: 1/4- 1/2 tsp
Pepper: 1/2 tsp

Method:

In a salad bowl, add together all the higher upwardly ingredients as well as mix well. Refrigerate until cook to use.

Serve chilled alongside rice dishes or flatbread .

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

If y'all are using canned corn inward the higher upwardly dish, brand certain y'all rinse the corn, drain it as well as thus role it.

If y'all are using frozen corn, brand certain y'all thaw it, steam it for 1 infinitesimal inward the microwave, drain it as well as allow it cool to room temperature earlier adding it to the salad.

Other vegetables similar diced carrots, pocket-sized cauliflower florets tin post away survive used inward the higher upwardly dish.

Tip for salubrious living:

According to Ayurveda,cucumber has a cooling lawsuit on the trunk when eaten.

Cucumber also helps piece of employment rid of nighttime circles roughly the eyes.Place i round out cucumber spell on each oculus as well as balance for 1 hour. You volition wake upwardly feeling refreshed. Do this for a few days as well as y'all volition encounter the nighttime circles cut down significantly.

References:
http://visual.ly/7-wonderful-benefits-cucumber-healthy-skin
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/16-superb-health-benefits-of-cucumber.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/036769_cucumbers_health_benefits_rehydration.html

Food for thought:

We may survive personally defeated, exactly our principles never! William Lloyd Garrison