A Mixed Vegetable Health Salad

Salads are an essential part of a meal, we make salads which are raw and are called Koshimbeer. We use raw vegetables, a dash of tempering, a bit of chilli for heat, some have groundnut powder for the nutty taste, some have curd mixed in it. Some vegetables like milk gourd and carrot are even grated and pressure cooked to make salads. We use the raw grated cabbage, raw raddish leaves and also chopped tomatoes, the variety is endless. Like the soups I will upload a few salads in this series. Here goes one of the most colourful ones.

Ingredients

Step 1

1/2 a beet root, peeled and chopped into long pieces
 1/2 a carrot, peeled and chopped into long pieces
Few florets of brocolli
4 cabbage leaves roughly torn
8 french beans deveined and roughly broken into long pieces
The above should be pressure cooked with a hint of salt to one whistle only, drained, cooled and kept ready

Step 2

150 gms of cottage cheese chopped into long pieces
2 tspns of olive oil
1/2 tspn of black pepper powder
1/2 tspn of mixed herbs
A dash of lime juice

Method 

Now in a mixing bowl take all the ingredients toss well and savour.

 Let me mention here that salt is optional since we have given a hint of it while pressure cooking the vegetables and also sometimes cottage cheese comes with added salt.