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Carrot salad with grains

Carrot salad with grains

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by Sagegreen

Carrot salad with grains

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by Sagegreen

  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Carrot Recipe
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    Sagegreen's Notes: After cooking long grain brown rice with teff using carrot juice, I had a lot left over. I had cooked 1 cup of rice with 1/4 cup of brown teff in 1 1/4 cups of water and 2 cups of carrot juice...

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Serves 2

  1. Arrange the greens on two plates. Divide the cooked grain and add that next. Create a ring of grated carrots on each plate next. Layer the onion, pepitas, cranberries and cheese on top. Float the mint leaves next.

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  2. Mix the olive oil together with the remaining ingredients to make a dressing. Pour over the salads just before eating and toss. Sprinkle with salt lightly.

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2 Comments on Carrot salad with grains

Kg_in_evanston_cropped Reply

This looks yummy. I could imagine it working well with other grains too, like quinoa. In our house we make "confetti quinoa": a mixture or red and white, that would look pretty in such a colorful salad.

Ab_sum Reply

Thanks, Fairmount_market. Yes, you are right; this would work well with other grains, too.

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