Tuesday 30 June 2020

Veggie and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing || Vegetable & dry fruit salad with lemon yogurt dressing

Veggie and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing recipe with step by step pics, youtube video and tips. Vegetable and dry fruit salad is one of our favorite salad at home. It is creamy, nutty and aromatic with the flavors of Indian spices in it. Believe me it is very filling, nutritious and gives cooling effect to your tummy instantly, i surely can say that you will love to have it regularly after tasting it once. 
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Whenever i feel my morning breakfast or even my lunch is heavy i prepare this salad. And not only that i love to have it anytime with or without yogurt dressing. We you prepare different salad dressings , yogurt dressing is one of my all time favorite and no need to tell how yummy it taste during summer sizzling hot times. During summers(in any season according to your taste)just keep it in refrigerator for sometime and have it 😋. Do check out my latest youtube videos recipes..

** kabuli chana curry video recipe in my youtube channel


** Jeera rice recipe in my youtube channel



This veggies and dry fruit salad includes different veggies like carrot,cucumber, bell pepper/ capsicum,cabbage, onion, tomato(you can include other veggies of your choice). Dry fruits which i used are just almonds, dry apricot and raisins. You can also add walnuts as per availability, fried peanuts added in it gives good crunchy taste and aroma. Coming to yogurt dressing, i added pepper powder and cumin powder . You can herbs, even olive oil for extra taste. We use all raw veggies in this salad, you do not feel raw kind of taste because of yogurt creamy texture. Do watch my youtube for full detailed recipe.Do not forgot to subscribe my  youtube channel Vasus vegkitchen & press bell button to get new recipe notifications.



Taking this healthy, tasty and nutritious vegetable and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri di who blogs at Mayuris jikoni. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we both share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it. This month theme suggested by Kalyani Sri, who blogs at Sizzlingtastebuds, do check her space for wonderful recipes, bookmarked her sugar free lemon iced tea to try soon. This month i am paired with Priya VijayaKrishnan who blogs at "SweetSpicyTasty", do check her space for traditiaonal tamil nadu recipes and recipes from different regions. Bookmarked her jain falafel recipe to try soon. Priya gave me coriander leaves and peanuts as two secret ingredients, with which i prepared this salad recipe. Both the ingredients added good taste and aroma to my salad. In turn i gave her pepper powder and lemon juice, Priya prepared sweet corn salad - vegan recipe. Do check her space for tasty recipes.
Let's start recipe..




                          Vegetable and dry fruit salad with yogurt dressing 

Preparation time : 20 min
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Salad 
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredient: vegetables, dry fruits and yogurt
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Onion - 1
tomato - 1
carrot -1 
cucumber - 1 
cabbage - 1/2 cup
capsicum - 3/4 (you can use red , yellow bell pepper's if available)
sweet corn - 1/2 cup
lemon juice - 2 tsp 
Almonds - 10
dry apricot - 4
kismis - 10
peanuts - 1/4 cup


For yogurt dressing

yogurt - 1 cup
salt as per taste
pepper powder - 1 tsp(adjust)
roasted cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
honey - 1 & 1/2 tsp

Instructions

1) Take a cotton cloth or muslin cloth pour yogurt/curd tie it and hang it for 30 minutes to removes excess water from curd.


                   

2) Boil sweet corn in excess water for few minute. Do not overcook, sweetcorn taste well when it is crunchy.



3) Take a pan fry 1.4 cup of ground nuts till it changes and keep it aside.



4) clean veggies in water, cut all the veggies into thin equal strips(julienne cut) and take it into bowl. Add pinch of salt and lemon juice saute everything well, close the lid and keep it aside.

                                     





5) finely chop almonds,dry apricot and keep it aside.



6) remove groundnuts skin and crush it coarsely and keep it aside.


7) Yogurt will be thick now, remove it from cloth and take it into bowl. Add pepper powder, roasted cumin powder, salt, honey and mix everything well.


8) Add chopped dry fruits(almonds, dry apricot, raisins) mix well.


9) Now add finely chopped vegetables, saute everything well. 

                                       

10) Adjust pepper powder and salt according to your taste. At last add crushed peanut and finely saute everything well. 


Our salad is ready, keep salad in fridge for an hour and serve chilled. Decorate salad as per your taste and enjoy.


Tips

** Add veggies according to your taste and availability.

**You can skip dry fruits of your choice, you can also add walnuts .

** Use thick and sweet curd to get creamy texture and good taste.

** You can skip adding honey.

** Serve it cool or as it. 

** You can also add Italian herbs, red chili flakes in it.

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19 comments:

  1. Veggies with dry fruits is a super combination for mid morning snacks. Thinking of everyday meals and snacks, thanks for your wonderful recipe.

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  2. Very nice and healthy salad. The dry fruits must have added crunchiness to it.

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  3. I am more excited about the nuts and dry fruits in the salad than anything else. It would be like a lovely surprise in each bite... Yum!

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  4. what a lovely way to use Hung Curd as a binding to make this yummy salad, Aruna ! Bookmarking!

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  5. Totally love this salad, which is loaded with veggies! The use of curd in the dressing is brilliant. I'm sure this must have tasted absolutely delicious!

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  6. A salad with veggies, nuts and dried fruits.. perfect to get all the required nutrients and filling too. Love how you added yogurt dressing to the veggie and dry fruit salad, making it creamy.

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  7. The curd dressing with nuts and dry fruits is a good choice. The texture looks very appealing and colorful

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  8. I love salads with hung curd and this looks too tempting with crunchy peanuts. Perfect way to enjoy your meal.

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  9. I love the addition of hung curd to salads. This looks so tasty with both veggies and nuts, I need to make it.

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  10. Such a fresh Salad you have presented here. Love the addition of nutty flavoured crushed groundnuts.

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  11. This salad with veggies , nuts and dry fruits with hung curd dressing sounds so healthy, filling and nutritious! I can have this very happily as my summer lunch.

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  12. I am loving the crunch here with the use of nuts and the salad is so refreshing wtih all the veggies. Delicious.

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  13. I like the idea of using hung curd in salad. I am sure it gives such a creamy texture to it. Such a healthy salad with veggies and dry fruits.

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  14. Love this flavourful salad with veggies , nuts and dry fruits with delicious dressing . A perfect nutritious meal for all. Hung curd adds a nice creamy texture to the salad .

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  15. For a moment I thought it was chicken salad then I remembered you are a vegetarian. Looks awesome loved your yogurt dressing. Must have tasted awesome.

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  16. Wah aruna, This is a nice use of hung curd,nuts and dry fruits in a veggie salad ! All are making the salad so colorful and yum :)

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  17. Wow, that is a lot of vegetables and dry fruits in that salad and hidden too. Now that is a comforting fact when kids dont want to have all these veggies. I will love to try this sometime

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  18. Wow Interesting salad... I too love yogurt dressing and loved the addition of dry fruits in veggie salad.

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