Easy, Healthyish, Recipes, Vegetarian

Lebanese Spread – Salad and Sour Cream

If you are in the mood for a Middle Eastern snack, learn and dish up a homemade falafel spread with crunchy salad and sour cream recipe. We promise you won’t make it just once.

Ingredients

  • For the Salad –
  • 1 Carrot
  • 1 Onion
  • 1 Cucumber
  • 1 Beetroot
  • 1 Cabbage
  • 1 Capsicum
  • Olive Oil
  • 1 Lime Juice
  • Toasted Sesame Seeds
  • Fresh Parsley & Coriander
  • Salt to Taste
  • For the Sour Cream –
  • Hung Curd
  • 5-6 Garlic Cloves 
  • 1 Tsp Lime Juice 
  • Salt to Taste 
  • Fresh Mint Leaves

Preparation

Prep: 10 minutes
Cooking: 10 minutes

  1. For the salad, finely chop all the vegetables into thin julienne strips.
  2. Add a dressing made with olive oil, lime juice and salt. Garnish with fresh parsley and coriander leaves. Sprinkle sesame seeds.
  3. For the sour cream, hang full-fat milk yoghurt in a muslin cloth overnight to make sour cream.
  4. Finely chop garlic cloves and fresh mint.
  5. In a bowl mix the hung curd, fresh mint leaves, lime juice and salt. Keep it covered in the fridge to chill.

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Kanika Dave

Born in Bombay to a beautiful Punjabi mother and a half-Gujarati-half-Mangalorean handsome father, I am a complete mix of both cultures by heart. My Nutritionist-dietician-weight trainer mother will always be my biggest food inspiration. Observing her since childhood and shadowing her every move in the kitchen, watching her chop, taking in the aromas and feeing the love with which she cooked has always been a treat. How she makes everyday simple food taste so delicious will always be a mystery to me. A special mention to my dear friend Oskari whom I met 11 years ago in Goa and fell in love instantly. He is European and came from a contrasting food background. Watching him move around swiftly in the kitchen has always been my favourite thing. I have been lucky to spend quality time with his mother Hanni who is a wonderful cook and runs one of the most beautiful resorts in Zanzibar. Through them, I learned a lot about world food.