Orange-Green Summer Salad

Filed in: Food & Nutrition | Recipes | Veggie Eats by Tacita

June 30, 2006 by Tacita @ 09:21 AM

Get in two veggie servings and two colours of veggies with this pretty salad, prefect to bring along for a picnic or to a barbeque!

Orange-Green Summer Salad The salad is made of just two type of vegetables: zucchini and carrots, two veggies in season now which you can quickly cook or serve raw, and a light but creamy dressing. Perfect for these summer days!

This is what you will need to make it!

Ingredients

two medium carrots

two medium zucchini

low fat yellow mustardM

one tablespoon tomato paste

the juice of one lemon

Preparation

With a potato peeler, peel the carrots. Wash the zucchini.

Also using the potato peeler, slice thinly both veggies lengthwise: this step will give you thin, bendable veggie slices, which also look pretty and fancy!

At this point you can decide to cook the veggie OR to serve them raw. Many people like the taste of raw zucchini, but I am not one of them so I decided to go ahead and cook both. The best method is to steam them quickly, about 5 minutes. But alternatively you can dip them in boiling water for 3 minutes or until tender.

Drain well or the salad will become pretty soggy.

Prepare the dressing mixing one tablespoon of yellow mustard with the same amount of tomato paste. Add lemon juice to make the dressing more liquid. You will not really need any salt, which is great, since we all know how bad salt is for dieting!