Southern Salad

 Southerni Salade

varieties of salad can be made just with the help of our native process, 

Salad decoration is also an integral part of the salad making process.

The presence of the tomato alone cannot bring life to the salad.

There are many other spices, veggies and other edibles that are also 

required for flavouring salad as it brings a pleasant change of taste too.           

Rice and fish being the lifeblood of Bengalis, it is necessary to have a 

salad as a side dish too for the change in taste.

Southern salad:(for 4 people)

 Ingredients: 

Half cup Gobindobhog rice,

1.5 cup coconut cut in pieces.

6 tablespoons coconut oil,

2 tablespoons sambar spices, 

4 curry leaves, 

half a teaspoon turmeric powder, 

3 tablespoons lemon juice.  

2 medium-sized tomatoes 

50 g fried peanuts, 

4 tablespoons dried coconut for garnish.

Cooking method: 

1. Choose rice and wash it well with water.

2. Soak for about half an hour then boil it, 

    remove the starch and put the rice in a container.

3. Heat oil in a pan.

4. (after the oil is hot enough for cooking, turn the flame off)

    Wash the curry leaves then put them in the hot pan, (no flames)

    Stir in the curry leaves.

5. Mix turmeric and sambar spices with it and keep stirring.

6. Put this mixture in a bowl and let it cool.

7. Then mix the lemon juice with a spoon.

8. Cut the tomatoes into rounds to serve.

Serve:

 1. Mix hand and coconut crumbs in a salad bowl.

 2. Now pour the curry mixture and shake it.

 3. Arrange round tomato pieces around.

 4. Sprinkle the sugar nuts hesitantly. 

     Arrange pieces of dried coconut on top.  

     Serve cold.