Carrot Salad With Orange Honey Dressing

For the Day 2 of Blogging Marathon # 17  under the theme "Summer Salads" I am going to share you another refreshing and healthy salad - Carrot Salad with Orange Honey Dressing. First time i tried this orange-honey combo for my salad as dressing and it turned out awesome. It was superb! n i have no words to explain the taste...Friends do give it a try, sure you will love it to the core, even if u don't like salad i am sure you will love to eat this healthy n colorful salad. You won't believe, my 3yr old loved this salad very much but he didn't like raw ginger pieces. Other than that he loved it :)
This recipe was slightly adapted from allrecipes.com In the original recipe they used lemon juice n sugar for dressing but i replaced lemon with Fresh Navel Orange n sugar with honey. To make it even more healthy n tasty i added a handful of cooked black eye peas, finely chopped raw mango,red onion n tomato and few ginger stripes. I also tried the same with fresh lime juice that was also so refreshing and yummy. This salad can be served along with your meal too, so that u will consume more salad n less food ! The recipe as follows...

Ingredients

1. Carrot    1 and 1/2 cup (grated)
2. Black eye Peas    1/4 cup (cooked or canned)
3. Raw Mango   1/4 cup + more (finely chopped)
4. Red Onion    3 tbsp(finely chopped)
5. Tomato    3 tbsp(finely chopped)
6. Cilantro    3 tbsp(finely chopped)
7. Salt    to taste
8. For Dressing 
9. Fresh Orange Juice    2 tbsp
10. Honey     2 tbsp or to taste

Method

• First wash carrots n peel off the skin lightly, then shredded to desired size.
• And chopp onion,tomato,raw mango,cilantro n ginger and keep everything ready.

• Squeeze orange juice and keep ready.
• In a wide bowl, add carrots,cooked black eyed peas,chopped mango,onion,tomato,cilantro,ginger n salt.Toss everything well.

• Now add orange juice and honey mix everything well and leave it in fridge for 15-20 minutes.
• That's it Super wholesome n tasty Carrot Salad ready. 

Notes:
To make the salad crunchy add some crushed peanuts or any desired nuts.
Instead of black eyed peas, you can also add chickpeas/black beans/mung beans or any desired legumes and also moong dal/masoor dal can also be added.
To make it even more delicious add 1/4 cup of sweet corn kernels.