Fresh Vegetable Salad

Fresh vegetables and fruits are a good source of anti-oxidants. Moreover, vegetables and/or fruit salads help reduce the servings of carbohydrates in your diet. Addition of salads makes your meal nutritionally more balanced. You can combine fruits, vegetables, pasta and/or sprouts as per your choice and add different dressings to make the salad more interesting. However, when you are hard pressed for time, this fresh vegetable salad would be very easy to prepare. Lets’ proceed with the recipe.

Ingredients:

Cabbage – shredded, 1 teacup or 100ml measure

Cucumber – cubed, ¼ teacup or 50ml measure

Carrot – cubed, ¼ teacup or 50ml measure

Radish – cubed, ¼ teacup or 50ml measure

Onion – 1 no, finely chopped

Salt – to taste

Olive oil – 1 tablespoon

Dried basil – 1 teaspoon

Red chili flakes – ¼ teaspoon (adjust to taste)

Fresh Vegetable Salad

Method: Wash and peel cucumber and radish. Wash and scrape the carrot. Cut the vegetables as instructed. Heat oil in a wok on medium flame, add the cut vegetables and toss a few times. Switch off the fire. Add salt, chili flakes and dried basil. Mix very well. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Serve chilled. 

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