Cabbage-Carrot Kosumbari ( Salad); Meatless Monday

Vegetables shape the biggest component subdivision of my plate for every unmarried meal! You could tell that I create total myself alongside veggies!Almost all of my meals convey a salad included. Our traditional Indian salads are known equally kosumbaris as well as are non alone tasty but extremely salubrious alongside minimal amount of fatty inwards it. One of the regular kosumbaris that Amma ( mother) used to brand was the carrot or cabbage Kosumbari. My woman bring upwards cooks the healthiest meals!! She ever drummed into us the importance of vegetables! Of course, she is a vegetarian! She would urge me to swallow carrots because it is skillful for the eyes! I would protest/ resist, produce everything I could hence equally to non swallow it! But similar they say: Mother knows best! Now I religiously brand them an integral business office of my meals inwards a bespeak to meliorate my health!

Servings: 2

Ingredients:

Grated carrots: 1 loving cup ( close ii medium sized carrots)
Shredded cabbage: 1 loving cup ( pocket-sized slice of cabbage, chopped /shredded )
Green chilli: 1 small, finely chopped
Lemon juice: 1-2 tbsp ( 1/2 medium lemon)
Freshly grated coconut: 1 tbsp ( optional)
Salt to taste
Cilantro ( coriander leaves) : 1 tsp for garnishing.

For tempering :

Coconut oil: 1 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Hing ( asofoetida)powder: a pinch

Method:

In a bowl, mix together shredded cabbage, grated carrots, freshly grated coconut, chopped greenish chilli,lemon juice & salt.

Tempering:

Heat kokosnoot crude oil inwards a pocket-sized frying pan. Add the mustard seeds. Once they splutter, add together curry leaves as well as hing. Turn off the flaming immediately. Add it to the higher upwards bowl as well as mix well.

Garnish alongside cilantro( coriander leaves).

Serve equally an accompaniment to whatever repast or bask it simply similar that!

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

This salad tin last made alongside simply shredded cabbage or grated carrots too. If using both, as well as hence the proportion of each 1 tin last varied based on private gustatory modality as well as preference. I convey used equal amounts of cabbage as well as carrot.

Tip for salubrious living:

My woman bring upwards was right! Carrots are a neat root of beta carotene! Beta carotene is converted into vitamin Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 inwards the liver which inwards plough is transformed into rhodopsin inwards the retina. Rhodopsin is essential for black vision! Hence, yes, carrots assistance improve vision! Beta carotene has also proved of import for preventing macular degeneration as well as senile cataracts.

Carrots are also purported to convey anti-aging as well as anti-cancer properties. Vitamin Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 is also of import for healthy, glowing skin.

References:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270191.php
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-benefits-of-carrots.html

Food for thought:

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