Carrots are a healthy vegetable that can be purchased year round at an affordable price. If you want to diversify the menu of your household by filling the diet with vitamins, then prepare a carrot salad. Such a simple dish will appeal to both children and adults.
If you don't know how to make a carrot salad, then the recipes below will help you cope with this task. The dishes will be very simple, but tasty at the same time. You will not need large financial costs for preparing a salad.
Carrot salad No. 1
This simple carrot salad is unlikely to be suitable for a festive table, but for breakfast or a snack for a child or adult, it is just that. To prepare a dish, a minimum of ingredients is needed, and after such a treat, the body will receive a lot of vitamins.
To make carrot salad, take:
- 200 g fresh carrots;
- 1 medium orange;
- 2 tsp vegetable oil;
- 2 tbsp. l. nuts or peeled sunflower seeds (you can do without this ingredient).
The steps for making fresh carrot salad are as follows:
- Wash the root vegetable, remove the peel from it, grate on a coarse shredder.
- Wash the orange, peel, remove the seeds and cut the fruit into slices. If desired, peel the orange so that only one pulp remains, so the salad will turn out juicier and more tender, but if you do not want to mess around, then it is enough to remove only the zest.
- Combine carrots and prepared orange, add nuts or seeds, season with butter and serve.
Carrot salad, the recipe for which is described above, is very popular with children. Kids are attracted by the bright color and sweet taste of the dish.
For a change, you can add mute raisins or dried apricots to a fresh carrot salad. It is recommended to choose almonds or walnuts from nuts, although hazelnuts are also suitable, it's a matter of taste.
If you are preparing a carrot salad for an adult, you can add a little salt to the dish, and drip lemon juice or vinegar for piquancy. So the taste of the snack will become deeper and richer.
Carrot salad No. 2
This carrot salad is hardly suitable for a children's menu. But adults will most likely like it. The salad turns out to be hearty and has a spicy taste, but at the same time it is easy to prepare and does not require the purchase of a large number of expensive ingredients.
To prepare the salad you need:
- 300 g fresh carrots;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 3 garlic cloves;
- 1 processed cheese (90 g), for example, "Friendship";
- Lemon juice to taste
- 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise.
Steps for making carrot salad:
- Wash the carrots, peel, grate on a coarse shredder.
- Grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
- Put the processed cheese in the freezer for 10-15 minutes, and then grate on a coarse grater. A slightly frozen product will rub well.
- Combine the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl, add the garlic passed through a press, stir the products.
- Season the fresh carrot salad with mayonnaise, stir, add salt and lemon juice to taste. Let the dish stand for 5 minutes and serve.
Carrot salad can be prepared with one type of cheese. If you make a dish without melted cheese, then it will turn out to be more crunchy, crumbly.
As you can see, carrot salad can be light, vitamin-rich and satisfying. Try both of the recipes described in the article and decide which salad you like.
