Saturday, December 27, 2008

Burnt corn and sprouts salad

This would be my contribution for two events coming up.
This salad is very healthy and nutritious and a favourites among kids too!!

Ingredients:
frozen sweet corn - 1 cup
sprouted black chana - 1/2 cup
onion - 1 small
tomato - 1 medium
green capsicum - 1 small
Dressing
olive oil - 1+1/2 tsp
lemon juice - 1 tsp
chilli powder - 1 pinch
salt to taste

Method:
Defrost sweet corn, heat 1/2 a tsp of olive oil and roast corn on medium flame till slightly burnt.
Blanch sprouted black chana in salted hot water and drain.
chop onions, tomato into small squares
chop capsicum into small squares, red and yellow capsisum could also be added to make the salad colourfull.
Mix all the veggies in a bowl and refrigerate for an hour or so.
whisk out olive oil, lemon juice chilli powder and salt in a small bowl and keep ready.
Just before serving, mix in the dressing into the veggies thoroughly and serve straight away.

This Salad is my entry to the
Cooking for Kids Event hosted by Sharmi at Neivedyam.



and also to the JFI-Sprouts Event hosted at Ammalu's Kitchen.

1 comment:

Preety said...

yup sounds healthy and delicious to me..nice entry for the events