Salad for soul

I love salads (all my posts usually start with this line, cause' I really love to eat what I make or I make what I love to eat!). They can make the meal a healthy experience. A colorful salad bowl adds to the charm of the dining table. It makes the whole thing look so good.

And there are so many of them around. Veg salads, fruit salads, salads with meat & fish. So many different types of dressings - French, Italian, Thai and the list goes one. Or you can top-up the salad with anything that you like. I will be posting more of salads to be just with the variety thats available.

If you are having a plate full of meat the salad can still make it lighter. Or having salad with bread can make you feel healthier. Salads can be munched on any time. They are a good substitute to many sugary and oily snacks.

India has a wide variety of salads with so many ingredients available. However today the salad that I am presenting to you is a mix of Moroccan style salads (I have mixed ingredients from 2-3 different types of Moroccan salads!).

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Ingredients:

- One orange peeled and sliced
- Small bunch of mint leaves, cleaned and stranded (chopped or left whole)
- A cup full of chopped scallions
- One onion chopped
- One red radish grated
- 2-3 tbsp crumbled walnut

Ingredients for the dressing:

- 8-10 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 2 tsp fresh & coarsely crushed black pepper
- A pinch of salt
- 2-3 tbsp of olive oil


Steps:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl
2. Use garlic crushed to get finely chopped garlic
3. In a small bowl mix the ingredients for the dressing - finely chopped garlic, lemon juice, crushed ground pepper, dried & crushed basil leaves, vinegar, salt and olive oil. Stir them well



4. Spread the dressing over the salad nicely and evenly. Stir it to mix the dressing with the salad.
5. Place the salad bowl in the refrigerator. Take out just before serving.





Happy eating!