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Green Cool Salad
Carefully chosen ingredients like green grapes, cucumber and cabbage make this salad a really "cool" one. Unlike other dressings, this one is made of curds and flavoured with basil and lemon that add zest to its already unique flavour. Low fat curds provide protein and calcium, making this salad good for strengthening and maintaining healthy bones.
Ingredients
- For the basil dressing
- ¼ cup thick hung low fat curds (dahi)
- 1 tbsp low fat cream/ milk (99% fat free, readily available in the market)
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp finely grated lemon rind
- 1 tbsp chopped basil
- 2 tbsp grated apples
- a pinch of sugar
- a pinch of mustard (rai / sarson) powder
- salt and black pepper (kalimirch) powder to taste
- Other ingredients
- 2 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 tsp chopped celery
- 1 cup grapes, cut into halves
- ½ cup cucumber cubes
- salt to taste
Instructions
- For the basil dressing
- Combine all the ingredients together in a bowl till smooth. Refrigerate to chill.
- How to proceed
- Put the cabbage and celery in ice-cold water for half an hour.
- Drain, wrap in a muslin cloth and refrigerate till ready to serve.
- Combine the grapes and cucumber in a bowl and refrigerate to chill.
- To serve, add the cabbage and celery to the bowl containing grapes and cucumber.
- Sprinkle salt over it, add the dressing and toss well.
- Serve immediately.
