Vegetable salad recipe | How to make weight loss salad | Indian salad recipe | Easy vegetable salad
By Latha on April 3rd, 2020
Vegetable salad recipe explained with step by step picture and a video. This is an Indian style perfect weight loss recipe. This tasty weight loss salad is prepared using commonly available ingredients like boiled chickpea, chopped cucumber, onion, tomato, grated carrot, radish, coriander leaves, salt, pepper powder, lemon juice and little oil.
We all have cravings and it's quiete natural. Especially during evening, most of us feel hungry or bored. And most of us end up eating some junk food due to several reasons. But preparing a healthy salad like this is very easy, healthy and it fills our tummy too. I have shared one more healthy boiled peanut salad salad recently. Also you can find many more salad recipes in salads and raitas section. So next time, try to prepare something healthy.
This is a very tasty evening snacks recipe. You can get creative and change it as per your taste. This salad helps in weight loss or to gain a healthy weight.
If you are looking for more chat or street food recipes then check my Mangalore churumuri recipe, girmit recipe, nargis mandakki recipe, sukha girmit recipe. And you can find more snacks recipes under my Snacks section.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 15 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2 - 3
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/4 cup chickpea or kadlekaalu
- 1/2 cup finely chopped cucumber
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/2 cup finely chopped tomato
- 1/2 cup grated carrot
- 1/2 cup grated radish
- 1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds or ellu
- 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander Leaves
- 1/4 - 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
- 1 - 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp coconut oil or olive oil
- Salt to taste
Instructions for making boiled peanut chat:
- Soak 1/4 cup chickpea or kadlekaalu for 5 - 6 hours.
- Cook the soaked chickpea until soft by adding salt and required water. So after this step you will get 1/2 cup cooked chickpea.
- Now in a container or a wide bowl, take chopped cucumber, chopped tomato, grated radish, grated carrot and chopped onion.
- Also add in cooked chickpea or chana or kadlekaalu. Please note chickpeas are salted.
- Next top it with chopped coriander leaves.
- Followed by sprinkle roasted sesame seeds (ellu) on top. Both chickpea and sesame seeds gives us required protein.
- Also add in salt and pepper powder as per your taste.
- Add in a tsp of oil. I have added coconut oil. You can add olive oil or any other oil.
- At the end add in lemon juice. Adjust as per your taste.
- Mix everything well and serve. Enjoy the healthy evening snacks.
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