Moorish Carrot Salad
Ready In: 20 mins
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 kg carrots, peeled
- 1 plump garlic clove, peeled
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds, toasted
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 4 tablespoons raisins
- 4 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1⁄4 cup coriander, roughly chopped
Directions
- Boil the carrots whole in lightly salted water for 8-10 minutes until just tender (or steam, if you prefer).
- While the carrots are boiling, use a pestle and mortar to mash the garlic to a paste with a pinch of salt; add the cumin seeds and pound a little more to combine.
- Stir in the honey and lemon juice.
- Drain the carrots, leave until cool enough to handle
- slice on the diagonal and tip into a salad bowl.
- Toss the dressing thoroughly with the warm carrots
- scatter over the raisins and pine nuts.
- drizzle with the olive oil.
- If you have time, allow the carrots to stand at room temperature for an hour or so, for all the flavours to come together.
- Just before serving, toss through the coriander.
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