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Serves
2
Writer Notes
This healthy, colorful, and healthful salad, called “koshimbir” in Marathi, the language spoken in Bombay, is a easy-to-produce lunch that is no longer unhappy in any respect. Tadka, or oil seasoning is the beginning step for many Indian vegetarian dishes, nonetheless right here it plays the feature of a French dressing. —Annada Rathi
Ingredients
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1/2 cup
soaked and sprouted mung beans
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1/2 cup
grated carrots
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1
medium tomato diced into 1/2-bolt objects
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1/4 cup
unique or frozen corn kernels
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1 cup
shredded cabbage
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1/4 cup
peeled and cubed (1/2-bolt) cucumber
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2 tablespoons
peanut powder (non-obligatory)
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3/4 teaspoon
salt, or to sort
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1/2 teaspoon
lime juice, or to sort
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1/4 teaspoon
crimson chile powder
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2 tablespoons
vegetable oil
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1/2 teaspoon
dark or yellow mustard seeds
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1/4 teaspoon
cumin seeds
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1/8 teaspoon
turmeric
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Cilantro, for garnish
Instructions
- Mix the beans and greens in a bowl. Add salt, lime juice, and crimson chile powder.
- Peanut powder provides a protein punch to the salad. Likelihood is you’ll per chance perhaps per chance produce it by blending store-sold peanuts or roasting raw peanuts on a skillet on medium warmth till they became brown and produce dark patches and blending them to a semi-gleaming powder. Add powder to the vegetable mix.
- For the tadka, warmth oil in a little pan. Add mustard and cumin seeds, which is ready to open up popping. Steer clear of the pan, the flying, popping mustard seeds can sting immoral. Add turmeric and flip the warmth off. All eyes on the tadka while making it. No multitasking please!
- Add the tadka to the bean and vegetable bowl. Mix neatly and garnish with cilantro.
- Here’s a hearty lunch, which is ready to be with out issues prepped by cutting greens the night earlier than. Encourage it as a side alongside with any meat dish or add it on top of tacos, burritos. That the colors on this salad are peek-popping is the extra address.
- This recipe is extremely versatile. Exchange with any greens that you may additionally safe at dwelling fancy crimson onions, lettuce, bell peppers, radishes. Likelihood is you’ll per chance perhaps per chance also even add some grain fancy cooked quinoa or bulgur.
To a pair of of us’s frustration, I decide to discuss about meals earlier than cooking, while cooking, while ingesting and naturally after ingesting.