What do you cook with carrots? I bet there are only two salads that are more or less frequent guests on your table. Korean carrots (which Koreans, in my opinion, have no idea about) and grated carrots with garlic and walnuts, dressed with mayonnaise.
But the variation is much larger, and now it's time to use it, because the salinity has become tired of the winter, fresh vegetables with the taste of vegetables or plastic - still a little, and those that are bite, while the body and the brain for a couple ask for something unusual, tasty, vegetable and with non-trivial taste.
Carrots are ideal for the role of the soloist of such a salad. Inexpensive and unusual. Well, let's go?
Simple: grated carrot salad with savory ginger dressing
We take:
• Carrots - 3-4 pieces
• Apple - one big, sweet and sour is better
• A piece of ginger about 3-5 cm
• Walnuts - about five
• Lemon juice, olive oil, honey - in any amount for dressing, that is, according to your taste.
Rub the carrots and apples on a coarse grater (you can use the one used for Korean carrots), and punch the ginger and walnuts in a blender into a homogeneous mass. Next, add olive oil, lemon juice and honey in the proportions that you like to the mixture of ginger and nuts. I like the proportion of 4 tablespoons of oil - 1.5 tablespoons of lemon juice and a little less than a spoonful of honey.
Hearty: Pork Carrot Salad
We take:
- 100 grams of onions (not spicy!)
- 100 grams of pork
- 500 grams of carrots
- Clove of garlic
- Soy sauce - three - four to five spoons (in general, to taste and looking at the quality and quality of the sauce itself)
- Salt, pepper, sesame seeds - all this should be available a little, and add - to taste.
- Oh yes, you still need vegetable oil.
Three carrots on a grater for Korean carrots (long straws), and rub with hands with salt and pepper (black and red, since we need both aroma and pungency). We fill all this with soy sauce and, covering with a film, leave it to marinate and soak.
While the carrots are standing, cut the onion into half rings, and the pork into thin cubes (like on beef stroganoff). Fry the onions until golden brown, and then, together with the onions, make pork (until cooked to the extent that you like)
Then everything is simple: crush the garlic, mix the carrots with onions and pork, add salt, if necessary, and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Leave all this to marinate for a couple of hours.
Bon Appetit!