Bizarre Nutritious Gulmarg Salad

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 medium apples
• 3/4 cup bean sprouts
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 orange
• 2 medium tomatoes
• 1 medium carrot
• 8 -10 fresh button mushrooms
• 1/4 cup mint leaf
• 1/4 cup coriander leaves
• 2 medium spring onions
• 1 tablespoon salad oil
• 8 lettuce leaves
• salt
• 2 whole red chilies

Recipe

• 1 core and cut apples into quarters with the skin.
• 2 thinly slice and sprinkle a little lemon juice.
• 3 mix lightly.
• 4 wash tomatoes, cut into quarters and slice.
• 5 wash, peel and cut carrots lengthwise and slice them thin.
• 6 peel the orange and discard the seeds and pith.
• 7 cut the segments into two.
• 8 clean, wash and chop corriander and mint leaves.
• 9 wash, trim and slice the sping onions with the greens.
• 10 wash mushrooms well, drain and slice them.
• 11 mix with some lemon juice to prevent discolouring.
• 12 trim lettuce leaves, wash in flowing water.
• 13 soak in chilled water, to keep them fresh and crisp.
• 14 trim, de-seed and shred the dried red chillies into flakes.
• 15 mix the rest of the lemon juice, salad oil, red chilli flakes, chopped corriander and mint leaves.
• 16 add salt to taste.
• 17 whisk well.
• 18 drain the lettuce leaves, tear them apart into bite sized pieces.
• 19 make a bed of these leaves on the serving dish.
• 20 lace with one fourth part of the dressing.
• 21 combine sliced apples, bean sprouts, orange segments, sliced carrots, sliced mushrooms, sliced tomatoes and sliced spring onion.
• 22 toss them in the remaining dressing.
• 23 place it on the lettuce bed.
• 24 serve immediately.