Grated carrots; salad variations

chocolate moose

Sun, Aug 14 2011, 4:18 pm

For a busy yomtov, it's easy to buy or grate carrots and keep them in the fridge for when you need a few salads at a time. You can get the carrots cheaply already-grated at Trader Joe with an OU if your grocery store does not carry them.

Here are a few varieties of carrot salads, using 2 cups of already grated carrots:

Spicy:
Combine the carrots with 3 T olive oil, 3 minced cloves of garlic, tsp cumin, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper to taste.

Garlicy:
Combine carrots with 2 minced garlic cloves, 1 T mint, 2 T oil, salt to taste

Sweet:
Combine carrots with 2 T honey

Juicy:
To carrots, add 2 T orange juice, half tsp of cinnamon, and salt to taste

Midwestern:
To carrots, add 12 crushed crackers or croutons, half an onion, cut up, salt and pepper to taste.

Asian:
Add grated daikon, turnip, radish or jicama to carrots. Dress with half cup vinegar or lemon juice, half cup water, 3 T sugar & 1 tsp ginger