Juicy dense radish - a vegetable with character.
The perfect match for her is an elastic sweet carrot.
Radish and carrot salad most often appears on our table in late autumn and winter, when the natural supply of fresh vegetables comes to an end.
Spicy-sweet couple - literally vitamin bomb.
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However, housewives love radish and carrot salad not for its undoubted benefit, but for a wonderful light and fresh taste. It is in the winter that the dish especially helps out. It can be served with any meat, boiled potatoes, rice, baked or stewed vegetables. For making radish and carrot salad, not only green or white is suitable, but and black radish.
Diversify the taste of the main components can be different ingredients: other vegetables, apples, pears, prunes, nuts, mushrooms, avocados, meats, berries (lingonberries, for example). Mayonnaise, yogurt, sour cream, oil-lemon emulsion are suitable for dressing radish and carrot salad.
Radish and carrot salad - general principles of cooking
To prepare the dish is completely easy. Vegetables need to be washed with a brush to get rid of all the dirt, cut off the skin. Then the radish and carrot are rubbed on a small or coarse grater - as you like. It remains to mix them with any additional ingredient and fill to taste, and the salad of radish and carrot is ready.
You can fill the dish in three ways:
1. store or homemade mayonnaise;
2. vegetable oil;
3. a mixture of vinegar, vegetable oil, salt and dried herbs;
4. sour cream or natural yoghurt;
5. sour cream dressing.
For the preparation of oil-vinegar dressing proportions can be arbitrary. But for the first time it is worth trying the classic version: two tablespoons of three percent or apple vinegar, seventy milliliters of any vegetable oil (flax, sunflower, olive, cotton), a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of any mixture of dried herbs. Sour cream dressing is made from 150 ml of store sour cream mixed with a spoonful of freshly squeezed lemon juice and a slice of chopped garlic. Instead of sour cream, you can take natural light yogurt.
The basic recipe for radish and carrot salad contains only two of these vegetables and a dressing. Classical proportions: two carrots are rare for two medium ones. Vegetables need to grate (can be grated for Korean carrots) and mix with garlic-lemon sour cream dressing.
Salad from radish and carrots with cabbage
Cabbage goes well in the basic recipe. A trio of traditional Russian cuisine of vegetables allows you to prepare a great light version of radish and carrot salad.
Ingredients:
• pound of daikon (white radish);
• big strong carrots;
• two hundred grams of white cabbage juicy;
• a bunch of fresh greens;
• salt;
• vegetable aromatic (unrefined) oil.
Preparation:
Grate carrots on a medium grater.
Grate the peeled radish.
Cabbage needs to be chosen not dense and dry (winter varieties), but juicy, loose.
Thinly chop the cabbage, rub it with salt, leave.
Cabbage should give juice.
Chop the herbs (parsley, dill, fresh basil or cilantro).
Stir all ingredients, knead slightly with hands.
Salt
Pour in two or three spoons of vegetable oil, mix and serve.
Radish and carrot salad with apple
A juicy, fragrant apple will tell the traditional radish and carrot salad wonderful sourness, and the fried onion rings have a special taste.
Ingredients:
• two medium radishes;
• large sweet and sour apple;
• average carrot;
• large white onion;
• half a cup of sour cream;
• lemon;
• salt;
• some cooking oil for the pan.
Preparation:
Cut the skin from an apple, cut it into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice so as not to darken.
Grate large carrots and radish.
Onions nashinkovat transparent half rings.
Heat the pan and fry the onion rings until golden brown.
Mix components, salt. Season with sour cream or a mixture of sour cream with mayonnaise in equal proportions.
Salad of radish and carrots with garlic
Garlic gives the radish salad extra spice and piquancy, and a large number of apples - wonderful juiciness. This version of the dish is perfect for meat.
Ingredients:
• two small radishes;
• two medium not very sweet apples;
• two strong carrots;
• six cloves of garlic;
• half a lemon;
• salt.
Preparation:
Grate carrots and radish.
Remove lemon zest from lemon.
Crush the garlic with the tip of a knife and grind in a mortar with lemon zest.
Put carrot, radish and garlic in a salad bowl.
Remove peels from apples and cut into small cubes.
Put the apples in a salad, mix.
Salt and mix again.
Pour over lemon juice.
If desired, flavor with vegetable oil.
Radish and carrot salad with cheese
Cheese note in a salad of radish and carrots sounds piquant and unusual. Cumin and green onions add extra zest.
Ingredients:
• two medium radishes;
• large carrot;
• two hundred grams of semi-hard cheese;
• some green onion feathers;
• pinch of cumin;
• salt;
• vegetable oil.
Preparation:
A piece of cheese grate large.
Cut green onions into smaller pieces.
Grate radish and carrots.
All components mix, salt.
Season with salad oil and serve.
Radish and carrot salad with meat
Meat is perfectly combined with the sharpness of radish, onion and radish. This variant of radish and carrot salad is very satisfying due to beef, eggs and mayonnaise.
Ingredients:
• large radish;
• egg;
• large white onion;
• two or three radishes;
• two hundred grams of boiled beef meat;
• half a cup of mayonnaise;
• parsley dill;
• vegetable oil;
• salt.
Preparation:
Boil a piece of beef, cut two hundred grams.
The rest of the meat and broth used for cooking borscht.
Beef cut into thin slices or straws.
Shred onions.
Heat the oil and fry the onion cubes.
Grate the radish large, and the carrots finely. Combine grated vegetables, meat and fried onions in a salad bowl. Mix.
Lightly salt.
Pour in mayonnaise and mix again.
Radish and egg cut into slices.
Cut the greens with a knife.
Decorate the salad with radishes, eggs, greens.
Salad from radish and carrots with crackers
A delicious radish and carrot salad is obtained by adding self-cooked rye bread crackers to the base ingredients.
Ingredients:
• two radishes;
• medium bulb;
• one carrot;
• two hundred grams of rye bread;
• two tablespoons of three per cent vinegar;
• vegetable oil;
• salt;
• dried herbs;
• two feathers of green onions.
Preparation:
Grate the peeled radish.
Just rub a large carrot.
Chop the onion.
Cut black bread into cubes or fancy pieces (circles, diamonds, asterisks, etc.).
Salt bread.
Heat the butter and fry the bread slices on both sides.
Prepare the vinegar-oil dressing.
Chop the onion feathers.
Mix the radish, onions, carrots.
Pour dressing, mix.
Decorate with onion feathers.
In the center to make a bread "hill".
Salad of radish and carrots with walnuts
The original taste will give a radish salad walnuts and garlic. Vitamin dish turns out unusual, tasty, useful.
Ingredients:
• large radish;
• large carrot;
• one hundred grams of peeled walnuts;
• three cloves of garlic;
• lemon;
• half a glass of sour cream;
• salt.
Preparation:
Large radish rub.
Grate carrots finely.
Cut the walnuts with a knife or roll them with a rolling pin over a paper towel.
Chop the garlic with a knife or grate.
With lemon halves, remove the zest and squeeze the juice.
Stir all the ingredients of the salad, including zest.
Salt, pour lemon juice, mix again.
Fill with sour cream and serve.
Radish and carrot salad with pickled mushrooms
Marinated mushrooms are another great extra ingredient for radish and carrot salad. The perfect flavor combination, suitable for meat dishes. Salad feature - fried radish. Ingredients:
• medium radish;
• one small carrot;
• 150 grams of pickled store or your own mushrooms;
• three spoons of butter;
• salt;
• medium white onion.
Preparation:
Cut radish into thin strips.
Rinse and chop the mushrooms (also straws or random).
Grate carrots finely.
Heat the vegetable oil and fry the radish for five to seven minutes.
Cut onion into semi-transparent round shell.
Mix all the ingredients.
Decorate with the remaining onion rings.
Radish and carrot salad with sweet pepper
Sweet Bulgarian pepper, cilantro and garlic are very good in a radish salad. Red chilli powder gives the dish extra spice.
Ingredients:
• three hundred grams of white radish;
• as many carrots;
• big sweet pepper;
• two cloves of garlic;
• three spoons of vegetable oil;
• teaspoon of sugar;
• a tablespoon of three per cent vinegar;
• salt;
• ground red pepper on the tip of a knife;
• a few sprigs of fresh cilantro.
Preparation:
Grate for Korean salads, grate carrots. If there is no grater, just thinly chop the carrot into strips.
Pour carrot sugar, salt, mix.
Large radish rub.
Cilantro finely chopped.
Chop garlic.
Pepper core, cut into thin strips or straws.
Mix all ingredients.
Heat the oil and pour over the salad.
Salad from radish and carrots with tomatoes
Very juicy salad turns out of the basic ingredients and tomatoes. Preparing a dish in minutes, and a lot of fun. Salad does not taste bitter. Ideal as an original snack for meat and strong non-sweet drinks.
Ingredients:
• six fleshy tomatoes;
• one large radish;
• large white onion;
• average carrot;
• a quarter cup of vegetable oil;
• salt.
Preparation:
Slice the radish into thin strips, cover with cold water and leave for thirty minutes to remove the bitterness.
Onion finely chop and pour boiling water over it.
Tomatoes cut into arbitrary slices, without removing the skin. Instead of the usual tomatoes, you can take a package of cherry. In this case, cut the tomatoes into halves.
Finely grate the carrot.
Water from onions and radish drain.
Connect all the ingredients of the salad
Salt
Pour in vegetable oil.
Mix well and serve.
Radish and carrot salad - tricks and useful tips
- Mayonnaise is good for dressing radish salad with some protein ingredients: meat, egg, mushrooms. It goes well with cold sauce and peppers and onions.
- In order to deprive the radish of bitterness, it is necessary to rub, salt, cover with a tight lid and leave it alone for five hours. The taste of the vegetable will be softer.
- Instead of fresh vegetables, pickled and even dried vegetables can be used as components for a radish and carrot salad. A carrot should only be fresh, and still juicy and sweet.
- You can use any radish for fat. No daikon - feel free to replace it with the usual green or even black radish.
- If a teaspoon of fresh honey is added to the salad, the taste will be piquant and the benefits will be even greater.
