Salads have been the foundation of healthy diets since forever. They have a high nutritional value that allows you to digest high-calorie foods and improves your immune system.
A key ingredient of any good salad is fiber content. Fiber is known to correct your sleep cycle, maintain cholesterol and keep your entire digestive system healthy.
Why should you add MILLET to your salads?
Quinoa is the most commonly used ingredient to add fiber to salads. However, millets have a higher fiber content, additional nutrients and are much lighter on the pocket.
Millet has 8x more fiber and 2x more minerals in comparison to rice and wheat. Hence, we have the perfect millet salad recipe for you that is vegan and easy to make.
INGREDIENTS
For The Dressing
Olive oil - 2 tbsp
Lime juice - 2 tsp
Honey - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste
Pepper - to taste
For The Salad
Foxtail Millet - 1/4 cup
(Optional) Cooked Red Kidney Beans or Rajma - 1 cup
Sprouts - 1/4 cup
2 Ripe Tomatoes
1 Small Cucumber
1/2 Carrot
1/2 Capsicum
Coriander leaves- handful
Mint leaves- handful
METHOD
For The Dressing
Take a small bowl, combine the olive oil, honey, lime juice, salt and pepper until completely mixed well
For The Salad
Wash and soak the millet for 30 minutes
Drain the millet and pressure cook it with 1/2 cup of water until done. In a pressure cooker, it takes around 1 whistle or 4-5 minutes after the pressure builds up
If you are not using a pressure cooker, cook it the same way you would cook rice
Allow the millet to cool to room temperature
Finely chop the tomatoes, cucumber, carrot and capsicum and add to the millet
Add the red kidney beans and the sprouts to the millet
Garnish the salad with chopped coriander and mint leaves
At last, pour the delicious dressing on the dry mixture
Serve it at room temperature
This salad is very healthy and a delight for your tastebuds.
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